I would link to those pictures of that desecrated dead girl, but don't want to be banned.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure this stuff happens all the time even now.

IdahoPrime: I feared it might be something by Pete Townshend documenting his investigative efforts.
/phew

As did I...

My girlfriend already asked me to buy her this for her birthday.. Oó

Mighty Tighty Whitey: My girlfriend already asked me to buy her this for her birthday.. Oó

Did she also ask for an X-acto knife set?

IKillBugs: Mighty Tighty Whitey: My girlfriend already asked me to buy her this for her birthday.. Oó

Did she also ask for an X-acto knife set?

I wouldn't worry too much unless she asked for razor wire.

Mighty Tighty Whitey: My girlfriend already asked me to buy her this for her birthday.. Oó

Wait for Billy Mays to sell it on TV so you can get 2 for only 19.95 plus S&H - We will even send you, for free, your very own set of "do it your self" scalpel's and "Magic Sawdust" for soaking up all the drippings if you order now. Here's how to order.

Chinchillazilla
I would link to those pictures of that desecrated dead girl, but don't want to be banned.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure this stuff happens all the time even now

It definitely does. My vet school yearbook photo is me holding my anatomy dog's leg. I also have a full album of myself and my friends posing with various parts of him.

Like the article says, it is sort of a collective identity thing (nothing says "I'm a vet/med student" like pictures with a cadaver) and it's a lot easier to joke around and have fun with anatomy lab than think about the cute puppy dog or once living person that's dead under your knife.

I considered submitting this when NPR did an earlier story on this book a week or so ago, but I did not think Drew liked links to dead people as he made clear when people started submitting the hanging of a certain former Iraqi dictator, so I did not submit.

/I could have not in a million years produced such a cool headline for it though. Good job subby.

Yet another reason why I love NPR

Did someone say coffee table book?



//Hot, like coffee

Demise: Did someone say coffee table book?


Which unfolds into a coffee table, if I remember correctly.

You are correct sir.

While it may be shocking to see medical students horsing around with dead bodies, Warner says, the photos were a statement of collective identity and a way for these young students to deal with an obvious reminder of their own mortality.

Isn't it illegal in California to take a dead body into a restaurant now because medical students kept leaving the dead bodies there when they left?

Tachikoma: While it may be shocking to see medical students horsing around with dead bodies, Warner says, the photos were a statement of collective identity and a way for these young students to deal with an obvious reminder of their own mortality.

Isn't it illegal in California to take a dead body into a restaurant now because medical students kept leaving the dead bodies there when they left?

I would assume that's always been illegal.

tiamet4: Chinchillazilla
I would link to those pictures of that desecrated dead girl, but don't want to be banned.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure this stuff happens all the time even now

It definitely does. My vet school yearbook photo is me holding my anatomy dog's leg. I also have a full album of myself and my friends posing with various parts of him.

Like the article says, it is sort of a collective identity thing (nothing says "I'm a vet/med student" like pictures with a cadaver) and it's a lot easier to joke around and have fun with anatomy lab than think about the cute puppy dog or once living person that's dead under your knife.

I bet your Christmas cards are a hoot.

Wow. That "A Student's Dream" photo gave me the heebie-jeebies--because you just know that sort of nightmare really does happen to med students.

Chinchillazilla: Tachikoma: While it may be shocking to see medical students horsing around with dead bodies, Warner says, the photos were a statement of collective identity and a way for these young students to deal with an obvious reminder of their own mortality.

Isn't it illegal in California to take a dead body into a restaurant now because medical students kept leaving the dead bodies there when they left?

I would assume that's always been illegal.

Regarding California . . . I would assume nothing.

Just give it time, there'll be a frumpy middle school teacher nailing one of them.

shooosh: Just give it time, there'll be a frumpy middle school teacher nailing one of them.

I'm a frumpy middle school teacher, so I'm getting a.... HEY!

Is it better than 100 Girls I'd Like To Pork?

\obscure?

Pretty cool indeed. If this happened today it would be blown out of proportion on shows like Dateline, 20/20, Nancy Disgrace...

tiamet4: Chinchillazilla
I would link to those pictures of that desecrated dead girl, but don't want to be banned.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure this stuff happens all the time even now

It definitely does. My vet school yearbook photo is me holding my anatomy dog's leg. I also have a full album of myself and my friends posing with various parts of him.

Like the article says, it is sort of a collective identity thing (nothing says "I'm a vet/med student" like pictures with a cadaver) and it's a lot easier to joke around and have fun with anatomy lab than think about the cute puppy dog or once living person that's dead under your knife.

Dog corpses != human corpses in the eyes of the law. Having been a visitor several times to dissection rooms there is a strict ban on any recording devices. People have donated their body to science, and thus they and their families are afforded the respect of not being used a curiousity.

As an instructor of Human Gross Anatomy, I can tell you that nowadays horsing around with the cadavers is strictly forbidden (whenever there are instructors around, anyway). People are extremely sensitive to the sacrifice and gift that donated bodies represent.

gulogulo: Dog corpses != human corpses in the eyes of the law. Having been a visitor several times to dissection rooms there is a strict ban on any recording devices. People have donated their body to science, and thus they and their families are afforded the respect of not being used a curiousity.

Then I will donate my body to science, and in a statement add the provision that recording devices be mandatory for me.

Hmmmmmm, I wonder if my Dad did that? Ahhhh, family photo albums!

I heard the author on NPR yesterday. He said that the horseplay during photos with the dead stopped, once they started being voluntary remains. It was easy to mess around with vagrants, but people who willed their bodies to science tend to demand more respect.
/what he said

A community college I used to teach at had a viewmaster of a vagina dissection.

My wife wanted Mondo Freaks so I made it for her birthday. That's a pretty weird coffee table book too.

Cadavers are treated with reverence at medical schools.

Submitter should have used the or tags. There's a whole lot of naked skin in this article.

/Smoking hot.

show me on the cadaver where he touched you.

jbrooks544: I heard the author on NPR yesterday. He said that the horseplay during photos with the dead stopped, once they started being voluntary remains. It was easy to mess around with vagrants, but people who willed their bodies to science tend to demand more respect.
/what he said


It was religion that taught me that what someone would do to the least of my brethren they would also do to me.

JewZeppy: jbrooks544: I heard the author on NPR yesterday. He said that the horseplay during photos with the dead stopped, once they started being voluntary remains. It was easy to mess around with vagrants, but people who willed their bodies to science tend to demand more respect.
/what he said


It was religion that taught me that what someone would do to the least of my brethren they would also do to me.

Are you implying that because someone dissected a vagrant's cadaver without prior permission that they would also do the same to your body, even though you had a will with explicit wishes for it's disposal?

Because, and you may not be aware of this, medical students stopped grave-robbing in the early 1800s.

austerity101: Then I will donate my body to science, and in a statement add the provision that recording devices be mandatory for me.

I've long wanted to donate my skeleton to a classroom with the stipulation that they must name it and make it wear different hats every day.

Thank you, Demise


/satisfied

Farking Zardwarks: JewZeppy: jbrooks544: I heard the author on NPR yesterday. He said that the horseplay during photos with the dead stopped, once they started being voluntary remains. It was easy to mess around with vagrants, but people who willed their bodies to science tend to demand more respect.
/what he said


It was religion that taught me that what someone would do to the least of my brethren they would also do to me.

Are you implying that because someone dissected a vagrant's cadaver without prior permission that they would also do the same to your body, even though you had a will with explicit wishes for it's disposal?

Because, and you may not be aware of this, medical students stopped grave-robbing in the early 1800s.

I think what he was getting at was that if someone would clown around with the body of someone they didn't respect, it would be no stretch to believe they would do it to any other. At least, that's what I got from it.

In both of my human dissection labs, we were given pretty stern lectures up front about how the people willed their bodies to science and were to be treated with respect at all times.

/late to the party

Yeah, medical school administrations nowadays are rather quick to bring down the thunder for horsing around with cadavers. Off-color jokes within only the earshot of other students or faculty are about the extent of what's allowed.

There was a dumbass group of University of Florida (I think) med students who got in trouble last year for posting cadaver pictures on Facebook.

I'm a figure artist that specializes in anatomy, so I think this book is pretty cool.

Also, I don't think it's nessessarily disrespectfu. - until they get hardened to such things, med students can be a bit creeped out from the cadavers and that's how they used to deal. I take it more as the deceased having a bit of fun with those they willed their bodies to. Kind of a "last dance" - it doesn't seem degrading or mean spirited to me at least. Finally - they are dead and gone - the status of the cadavers as anything beyond objects are purely in the minds of those of us who are living. The deceased is beyond caring. One may choose to honor the memory of a donor, but the donor themselve stopped having such concerns the moment they died.

gulogulo
tiamet4: Chinchillazilla
I would link to those pictures of that desecrated dead girl, but don't want to be banned.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure this stuff happens all the time even now

It definitely does. My vet school yearbook photo is me holding my anatomy dog's leg. I also have a full album of myself and my friends posing with various parts of him.

Like the article says, it is sort of a collective identity thing (nothing says "I'm a vet/med student" like pictures with a cadaver) and it's a lot easier to joke around and have fun with anatomy lab than think about the cute puppy dog or once living person that's dead under your knife.

Dog corpses != human corpses in the eyes of the law. Having been a visitor several times to dissection rooms there is a strict ban on any recording devices. People have donated their body to science, and thus they and their families are afforded the respect of not being used a curiousity.

Simmer down. It wasn't my intention to argue the morality of the behavior. I was merely saying that I understood it. I haven't been to medical school so obviously I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if pictures were still taken today, albeit with increased discretion about who sees them.

PainInTheASP

I bet your Christmas cards are a hoot.

Damn straight! Though my favorite school photos to share with friends and family involve arm-length latex gloves!

Mr. Burke and Mr. Hare, unavailable for comment.

sleeping martyr: Is it better than 100 Girls I'd Like To Pork?

\obscure?

"Throw Momma From The Train"

Chinchillazilla: I've long wanted to donate my skeleton to a classroom with the stipulation that they must name it and make it wear different hats every day.

When I took human gross anatomy, the professors weren't even in the lab, most of the time, during dissection. It was all TAs. I think I vaugely remember spiels about treating the bodies with respect, and for the most part we did. But lack of sleep makes you loopy sometimes; I know that my lab partner and I groped each other with the skeleton hands at least once during the semester.

sleeping martyr: Is it better than 100 Girls I'd Like To Pork?

\obscure?

Throw Momma From The Train is not obscure.

More liberal propoganda!,..this NPR story is OBVIOUSLY hiding the fact that libtards are raising zombies from the dead to enroll in affirmative action programs and give more undead support to gay marriage!!!

And OBAMA is supporting this terrorist plot because, he's a terrorist....
and Rush Limbaugh,..
and Jesus...

n stuff..

/not impressed

Chinchillazilla: I've long wanted to donate my skeleton to a classroom with the stipulation that they must name it and make it wear different hats every day.

Wins thread.