Do you happen to know the specifics of how these cadavers came to be available? There’s recently been some investigative reporting on this topic. The broad gist is that most people who are “donating their bodies to science” probably don’t get that companies will take those donated bodies and sell them for what are essentially tourist attractions like the one that you’re participating in.
In my teaching career I have not come across “tourist attractions”, but I’ve seen some things offered on the Internet for $3K or more that seem questionable to me. However, the lab where Alok worked was not a tourist attraction. He was among people preparing cadavers as prosections for college anatomy and physiology courses, not for a tourist attraction. The work requires focus diligence and the end product becomes part of the educational program for UC Berkeley Extension and Merritt College.
Do you happen to know the specifics of how these cadavers came to be available? There’s recently been some investigative reporting on this topic. The broad gist is that most people who are “donating their bodies to science” probably don’t get that companies will take those donated bodies and sell them for what are essentially tourist attractions like the one that you’re participating in.
In my teaching career I have not come across “tourist attractions”, but I’ve seen some things offered on the Internet for $3K or more that seem questionable to me. However, the lab where Alok worked was not a tourist attraction. He was among people preparing cadavers as prosections for college anatomy and physiology courses, not for a tourist attraction. The work requires focus diligence and the end product becomes part of the educational program for UC Berkeley Extension and Merritt College.
UCSF willed body program, on contract to Merritt College.