Re: do they really help ?
  By: James Bradley to Cindy Haglund on Wed Jan 09 2008 08:02 pm

 > The only cadaver that continues to benefit research AFAIK, is the convicted 
 > murderer condemned to lethal injection. He signed his body to science, where
 > they froze him, and sliced his remains into cross sections. This continues t
 > trump the resolution of even a CT scan. Besides teaching anatomy to students
 > bodies may be used to calibrate "crash test dummies".

I have worked in forensics for years and can think of many cadavers that have
radically changed the rules of crimescene investigations.

Have you ever ready about a place in Nashville called "the body farm"?

This place takes cadavers that were donated to science... and places them in
real crime scene situtations ... studying how the body decomposes.  I've been
there and it's absolutely fascinating... and I can honestly say that this kind
of research has solved a lot of crimes.

There are many ways bodies are used in the pursuit of science... it's not
always just medical.

Allen

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