HW 51 - Second Third of COTD Book

PRECIS

The next part of my book focuses on the ways that cavaders are helping people to study. There are different researchers that use cavaders to figure out things about the human body that can be applied to the living. All parts of the body can be used for science, I recall a part where I search for penis's not looking to find any results, and instead found thousands of responses. I encountered a doctored who used bodies for crucification experiments. People who are able to tell what happened on plane crashes through the body recovered. Speaking to the idea that death doesn't have to be boring, in death you might be able to be a result in science.

QUOTES

"There were the urologist from Seattle investigating the distribution pattern of dorsal nerves along the penile shaft. There were the French anatomist injecting red liquid latex into penile arteries to study. (123)"

"Little is known about our Dr. Barbet, except that he became very devoted, possibly a little too devoted, to proving the authenticity of the Shroud. One day soon, he would find himself up in his lab pounding nails into the hands and feet of an elfin. (154)"

"This time he put one arm, nailed it 1/3 inch of the way in. Then put 100 pounds of weight attached to it (half of the body weight of someone about 6 feet (156)"

"The heart was the only organ left inside a mummified corpse. (168)"

"The trick to designing body armor is to make it thick and unyielding enough to stop bullets without making it so heavy and hot and uncomfortable that officers won't wear it. (144)"

PARAGRAPH

I think the part that was the most funny out of this third of the book was the part about penis' (pause). Not because it was about penis' but because this is one of the parts of the body that I wouldn't imagine there be any use for. A lot of the things that have to do with penis' in life are related to sex and many focuses of sex are ways to stop STD's. When reading this portion of the book and the author looks up cavader and penis' I would imagine that there would be limited responses, just because I would imagine there be limited uses for them. However the author comes up with this line, "There were the urologist from Seattle investigating the distribution pattern of dorsal nerves along the penile shaft. There were the French anatomist injecting red liquid latex into penile arteries to study". There were a few lines after this and these test also came with different numbers of house many penis' were needed. The funny part about this was I never thought about all the uses that a dead body could have but now this book teaches that not only is there uses for these bodies but even a part of the body that I would find the least useful on a dead person.