2008 Woodie Awards
Full Exposure: a whole new meaning
Pre-PT club coordinates trip to experience 'Bodies' exhibit in N.Y.
Samantha Marinko
Issue date: 2/7/08 Section: Features
You have never seen bodies completely exposed like this, until now.
Thursday, February 22nd the Sacred Heart Pre-Physical Therapy Club will be hosting a trip to the 'Bodies' exhibit in New York.
The exhibit is home to 21 human bodies and upward of 250 human organs, providing educational discovery through examination of actual human bodies.
"I organized this trip because I felt that it would be a really good learning experience and the club had never done anything like this before," said President of the Pre-Physical Therapy Club, senior Karleigh Carroccia.
Helping Carroccia in planning this trip is Professor Mark Jareb, head of Pre-Medical Advisement and a Biology professor.
Jareb has been to the Bodies exhibit in the past with a group of students.
"It was educational in showing the extensive variation in human anatomy that just can't be taught by pictures in a book," said Jareb.
Another viewer of the Bodies exhibit is sophomore Serena Hunt who visited it a few years ago in Philadelphia.
"The exhibit provided a really good experience for people considering health-related majors because you're able to see actual dissected bodies," said Hunt.
"Most people won't ever experience that unless you have the opportunity to dissect a cadaver yourself in med-school."
Since the exhibit arrived in the United States, it has been visited by countless curious minds, and in turn, it has been scrutinized for its supposed ethical neglect to the bodies on display. The educational purposes, though the primary target of the exhibit, have been partly overshadowed by this rising controversy.
"The exhibit raised ethical issues and typically made our students at least re-evaluate their views on questions regarding life, death, and human dignity and that definitely made it a worthy educational experience on top of the practical benefit of gaining a better understanding of anatomy," said Jareb.
The once-living bodies are skinned, dissected, and posed as if they are performing everyday actions: throwing a discus, running, shooting a basketball, riding a horse and sitting in a chair.
Thursday, February 22nd the Sacred Heart Pre-Physical Therapy Club will be hosting a trip to the 'Bodies' exhibit in New York.
The exhibit is home to 21 human bodies and upward of 250 human organs, providing educational discovery through examination of actual human bodies.
"I organized this trip because I felt that it would be a really good learning experience and the club had never done anything like this before," said President of the Pre-Physical Therapy Club, senior Karleigh Carroccia.
Helping Carroccia in planning this trip is Professor Mark Jareb, head of Pre-Medical Advisement and a Biology professor.
Jareb has been to the Bodies exhibit in the past with a group of students.
"It was educational in showing the extensive variation in human anatomy that just can't be taught by pictures in a book," said Jareb.
Another viewer of the Bodies exhibit is sophomore Serena Hunt who visited it a few years ago in Philadelphia.
"The exhibit provided a really good experience for people considering health-related majors because you're able to see actual dissected bodies," said Hunt.
"Most people won't ever experience that unless you have the opportunity to dissect a cadaver yourself in med-school."
Since the exhibit arrived in the United States, it has been visited by countless curious minds, and in turn, it has been scrutinized for its supposed ethical neglect to the bodies on display. The educational purposes, though the primary target of the exhibit, have been partly overshadowed by this rising controversy.
"The exhibit raised ethical issues and typically made our students at least re-evaluate their views on questions regarding life, death, and human dignity and that definitely made it a worthy educational experience on top of the practical benefit of gaining a better understanding of anatomy," said Jareb.
The once-living bodies are skinned, dissected, and posed as if they are performing everyday actions: throwing a discus, running, shooting a basketball, riding a horse and sitting in a chair.
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