Dehumanizing display
Published: Tue, May. 01, 2007 12:00AM
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closeRegarding the April 9 article "Body's secrets are revealed":
As I looked into the face of that man, stripped of his skin, my blood pressure dropped. The visceral horror was duplicated only by seeing photos of systematically dehumanized Nazi Holocaust victims. This is what we have become. This is acceptable. Why cry out about soldiers photographed with skulls of Afghan citizens when this abomination is education, art, normal? Hanging bodies beautifully on wires at the mall is a tiny step from lynchings or any other dehumanizing crime.
Medical education pursues understanding of the human body with respect. Here, the deceit is the happy shopping context with simply more mannequins. This is not education. This is raw greed using cadavers as pawn. The exhibited people likely didn't give their permission to be grotesquely violated for $24 tickets in a circus sideshow. What's next in vogue -- furniture from human bones?
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The apathy from our decent community is terrifying. Don't be surprised by the Duke lacrosse case or the shootings at Virginia Tech. We have become and are creating a generation so blunted that human connection, dignity and suffering no longer register.
Sarah Redpath
Cary
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