Death's Summer Coat by Brandy Schillace

Author:Brandy Schillace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus
Published: 2015-04-22T04:00:00+00:00

Disembodied medicine

Experts at Australia’s Melbourne and Monash Universities recently unveiled ‘Anatomedia’. This software claims to be a ‘comprehensive, self-paced learning programme that explores anatomy from four different perspectives’. It simulates dissections and post-mortems, providing detailed scans of real bodies and labels to describe the sections, organs and more. For a more hands-on approach, the company SynDaverTM Labs constructs simulated tissue, organs or whole bodies for dissection. Their ‘Synthetic Human’ includes skin with fat and fascia, bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, articulating joints, a functioning respiratory system, a complete digestive system, visceral and reproductive organs, and a circulatory system. The goal of SynDaverTM is to replace human cadavers in medical education and training with ‘synthetic analogs’ that are, as their mission statement explains, ‘more cost-effective than the relevant animal or human model’. In addition to replacing the ‘dead’ body, SynDaverTM hopes to develop synthetic humans that breathe, bleed and react to stimulus, with both synthetic and ‘living’ cells. These are just two types of ‘bodiless’ anatomies – and just the most recent. Earlier equivalents did exist, from so-called ‘wax Venus’ obstetric models to more robust papier-mâché models, and each attempted to do the same thing: replace the body.

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