I visited the Body Exhibition, which is located in Buena Park, California. This exhibit allows a person to get a deeper look the inside the systems of a human body and it anatomy. It includes the skeletal system, muscular system, nervous system, respiratory system, digestive system, urinary system, productive system and fetal development, circulatory system, and lastly the threatened body. This exhibit contains more than 200 actual human bodies that have been dissected and preserved. During my visit I saw many things that changed my perspective. While visiting bodies I observed the exhibit itself, observed the people around me and asked the tour guide questions regarding the bodies. In the first place, I want to talk about the bodies in the …show more content…
exhibit. When you walk into each section, the room is labeled with the name of the system you are about to be exposed to. Everything is either held up by a metal bar or in a shielded box. Each room is cold, I'm assuming to preserve the bodies better. I imagined the exhibit would have some type of weird or odd smell. It didn’t, not even the smell of plastic. While observing you could hear the reaction of the people in the background or the hand held audio tour guides as they hold up to their ear for further information about the specimen they looked at. Through most of the exhibit rooms it was fairly bright, except one. The only dark room was the fetal development. This room felt colder than the others. I believe it was to add emphasize about the development of a human. When you looked closely at a specimen you could see all the unique details of the body. Looking closely you could see the pores of each body part. In the digestive system you see our fragile intestines. Looking at the intestines was kinda like looking at the skin of a shedding snake. It was a thin layer of protection. The tour guide let us hold a rubber patty to show us what it felt like to touch a preserved body part. It felt somewhat wet but in some places it was very soft and thin, but in others it had ridges and felt a bit more rough. Uniquely, one of the main people I observed was my boyfriend Andrew a tall, fair skinned young man. As we walk into the first part of the exhibit he was amazed to see the skeletal system so close. I watched him examine and read the description of every bone. When we came to the knee he talked about the meniscus and how he tore it completely playing soccer with his friends his 8th grade year. We then walked into the other room with the muscular system. While in the muscular he started to notice everything was very lifelike. He asked the lady in the white coat if the bodies were real, she told him yes and he had to take a moment to take it all in. People around us in saw that there was a muscular system holding the skeleton system. The face of shock came over them when they read that the skeleton and the muscle were the same person. In the same area I noticed a short Asian girl also taking notes on her notepad. I asked her why she was taking notes, she told me her professor sent her to the bodies exhibit on a scavenger hunt for an anatomy class to see if they really knew the material for the class.When we got to the fetal development section, he took a deep breath and walked in. The vibe of the room was wonder and sadness.Then room was dark with red. As he was looking at the different stages of development he would measure the size of the baby to his hand.While walking out of the room I asked him, “When do you believe a baby is no longer just a fetus?” He didn't know how to answer he was still in shock. All he said was, “It looks like a baby at 9 weeks, I can't believe it.” In due time, we saw the tour guide who's name is Mary, she was an older white lady with gray hair wearing a white lab coat.
I asked what would happen if during a boxing match a boxer got hit in the liver or spleen extremely hard? She told me if he was hit in his liver he would be fine because the liver reconstructs itself and that it is the most forgiving organ in the body. Although the worst case is, a person could possibly get hemorrhoids. Except for the spleen that is where he would have trouble. She explained that a person could bleed to death in a matter of hours if they ruptured the spleen. That the only choice to to die or have it removed immediately. Another question I asked was about the preservation of the bodies and organs. She started to explain they use polymer preservation. Polymer preservation is a substance that has a molecular structure to permanently preserve using liquid silicone rubber. The way it works is anatomist (an expert in anatomy) will fix a specimen with chemicals to temporary stop the decaying process. They remove the water from the specimen and replace it with acetone. It is placed in a vacuum chamber which makes the acetone become a gas and is replaced by the polymer mixture. Finally, the silicone polymer hardens. She told us an organ takes about a week, while s full body can take up to a whole
year. Ultimately the visit to the bodies exhibition was very eye opening not only seeing the human body unmasked but also the reaction and observing the people on how they felt overtime looking at the different systems. This visit makes a person want to take care of their body seeing how important each part is in its function. Observing the exhibit, the people and asking the tour guide questions completely changed my experience. I think the best part was the fetal development section and towards the ending when they had a machine that measures the muscle and fat you have in your body.
Introduction: Mary Roach introduces herself ass a person who has her own perspective of death about cadavers. She explains the benefits of cadavers and why they could be used for scientific improvements. She acknowledges the negative perspectives of this ideology.
Roach lists strange but helpful uses of human cadavers that benefit humankind in the long run. In the first chapter, as previously stated, Roach observes a face anatomy and face lift refresher course, in which surgeons use cadaver heads. This is an example of how cadavers are often used to practice different types of surgical operations, even cosmetic surgery (Roach 24). Cadavers also benefit the science of criminal forensics, in which their decay process is studied and used for different components of analyzing a crime, such as time of death. Researches place cadavers in different environments and observe the stages of biological and chemical decay and how different environments affect the decay process (Roach 61). To pinpoint the time of death, researchers analyze the body temperature, smell, the potassium level of the gel inside the eyes, insect infestation, and other entomological factors (Roach 62). Another beneficial use for human cadavers includes impact studies, such as a car crash. For the past sixty years, human cadavers have helped scientists understand and study human tolerance limits for violent injuries a human body can get from car crashes, such as skull slammings and chest skewerings. These studies and experiments allow automobile manufacturers design cars that, in the event of a crash, protect the person as much as possible and keep them safe (Roach 87). This results in safer windshields and steering wheels that aim to protect the chest and brain, the main culprits of car crash fatalities (Roach 89). One of the most extraordinary concept that Roach investigates is the live (beating heart) cadaver. Beating heart cadavers are alive by every means except the brain. The cadaver has perfectly functioning organs and a pulse, but is ultimately brain dead. Doctors utilize the cadaver’s functioning organs, such as the kidneys,
the body. The notions and events that occur in the essay provoked emotional responses ranging
Galen, . (n.d.). On the Usefulness of the Body. (M. Tallmadge May, Trans.). N.p.: Cornell University Press. Retrieved March 25, 2014
While reading the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach it opened my eyes and showed me that human cadavers are used for so many things in this world. By me reading this book it enlightened me on the many different ways cadavers can be used. In Each chapter I learned something new that I did not know before hand or expect.
The Body Worlds Exhibition by Gunther von Hagens "A quite extraordinary experience, slightly unnerving, but I do feel
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