Human Dissection

[danse_macabre]

To understand the cautious respect for the dead that pervades the modern anatomy lab, it helps to understand the extreme lack of it that pervades the field's history. Few sciences are as rooted in shame, infamy, and bad PR as human anatomy

Comments

[euthanasia_]

I always thought it was another
person that performed the first
dissection..

Or maybe it was autopsy I'm thinking of.

[esprit_blanc]

Is it true that mummifiers used to stick some long thin protruding object into the vaginal tract of a female to-be mummy, supposedly to preserve the body?

[crazy_julio]

Frightening to think that vivisection still goes on in this day and age