http://www.metafilter.com/tags/cadaver Posts tagged with 'cadaver' at MetaFilter. Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:12:54 -0800 Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:12:54 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/21724/body%2Dworld%2Dexhibition Previously discussed <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/15698">here</a>, the <a href="http://www.bodyworlds.co.uk/en/home.asp">Body World exhibition</a> in, London, Brick Lane is hosting what is to be the last <a href="http://www.bodyworlds.co.uk/en/Specials_London_Autopsy.htm">publicly performed autopsy</a> before they are banned. I've seen the exhibition and felt that it was done very well, but I'm not sure ill be attending the autopsy with as much haste. Macabre voyeurism or lay man intrigue? Its being rumored that is may also be televised on <a href="http://www.channel4.co.uk">channel 4</a> tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21724 Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:12:54 -0800 autopsy body cadaver exhibits london museums science monkeyJuice http://www.metafilter.com/17249/ <a href="http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/tiss05202002.htm">Would you still donate your loved one’s body if, instead of saving a life, parts were sold for profit, for cosmetic purposes?</a> A <i>Boston Herald </i>story says the Massachusetts Medical Examiner's Office supplies a company with information about the freshly dead that lets company reps pitch grieving relatives for donations. Because of decomposition, sometimes those calls are the first news the relatives have of the death, the story says. Among other end uses: breast, lip and penis enlargements. <b>Has the halo around organ donation blurred ethical questions around other uses for dead people?</b> tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.17249 Mon, 20 May 2002 09:27:49 -0800 cadaver death ethics science transplants sacre_bleu