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I'm glad (I suppose) to know that my decision to leave my corpse to a body farm isn't the most gruesome possibility.
I'm also glad to know, since I'll probably visit China at some point, that I should decline any offers of medicine. Ibuprofen works well on my headaches, so I have no desire to try powdered human penis, nor Tai Bao pills (aborted fetuses...finally in easy-to-swallow capsule form...yay). Of course, the only gimmick in China is that they still use a ton of creepy cadaveric medicine ( ...more
I'm also glad to know, since I'll probably visit China at some point, that I should decline any offers of medicine. Ibuprofen works well on my headaches, so I have no desire to try powdered human penis, nor Tai Bao pills (aborted fetuses...finally in easy-to-swallow capsule form...yay). Of course, the only gimmick in China is that they still use a ton of creepy cadaveric medicine ( ...more
Disappointing after all of the hype and praise. This book really isn't about cadavers so much as it is about dead human bodies, which isn't the same thing.
It starts off on track with the author sitting in on an advanced training seminar for surgeons using cadaver heads. She makes mostly mildly humorous observations and annoys the surgeons. The next chapter is a trip to a body farm, where we don't learn too much about the experiments so much as she focuses on the smell. There's an interesting sec ...more
It starts off on track with the author sitting in on an advanced training seminar for surgeons using cadaver heads. She makes mostly mildly humorous observations and annoys the surgeons. The next chapter is a trip to a body farm, where we don't learn too much about the experiments so much as she focuses on the smell. There's an interesting sec ...more
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