Anatomy - life and death on Channel 4

moimoi · 18-01-2006, 08:21

Anybody been watching this on Channel 4 with the mad scientist! Fascinating viewing if a little repulsive (he cuts open and disects dead bodies!) but i would think it essential viewing for medical students etc

It brings up a question of morals though, i'm not sure if i'm comfortable with the whole idea of making it into a show for the mass public. As an educational tool fine, but as 'entertainment'?

(please don;t put this into entertainment section!)

Abdul · 18-01-2006, 08:25

Intersting point, but perhaps the best way to make this program appeal to the widest range of viewers is to dress it up as entertainment.

If it was billed as a boring documentary on BBC2, by a tweed- jacket- with- leather- patches professor, no one would watch it...

nick2 · 18-01-2006, 08:35

I watched it last time round and thought it was great, very interesting, if they have to make it a bit more entertaining to get it on TV then thats fine by me.

Agent Orange · 18-01-2006, 08:50

Makes a change from the usual tripe that C4 usually broadcasts. If it's educational and gets people thinking then surely it can only be a positive regardless of the subject matter and how they choose to dress it up.

nick2 · 18-01-2006, 08:54

Could be worse, it could be "I'm a dead body, get me out of here", vote for the corpse you want evicted and cut-up first, thats more normal Channel 4 level, and would probably get viewing figures of about 5 million.

Twiglet · 18-01-2006, 10:06

I really don't like this guy. The last two programmes he did were not at all reflective of either a post-mortem or what goes on in a medical school dissection room. They were dresed up as entertainment and he was going to the full shock value. I think people have every right to know what happens in a post-mortem as eventually it happens to all of us, but he didn't actually show this.

I watched the programme last night and actually found it quite interesting and had gained a little more respect for the man - until the fork lift truck came out. He has no respect for the dead he's using them for his own gains to make him famous and to make money (the Body Worlds exhibition).

Ellybum · 18-01-2006, 10:53

A couple of years ago, I went to see The Body Worlds exhibition in London. Although I was apprehensive, I was also intrigued. I actually went with my daughter (who was at the time studying PE GCSE, and I thought it would help with her understanding of the muscle structure in the human body). It was extremely interesting and not at all gory. It was very educational
These bodies were donated by their owners, who knew exactly what the purpose of donation would be for.

I havent seen the autopsys on Channel 4 as yet, but I intend to.

The professor is a rather strange but it takes all sorts!
I, for one, find his work amazing - however, Im not sure i could donate my own body! Hypocritical? - yes. Scared? - DAMN RIGHT I AM!!

Ellybum · 18-01-2006, 10:54

Sorry, dont quite know what happened there!!!

roughy101 · 18-01-2006, 11:07

i started watching it last night

i had to turn over when he sliced the kidney in half,facsinating but i couldnt watch anymore

nick2 · 18-01-2006, 11:14

I'd like to have my body plastinated, you would last forever after that, and you'd probably me more use as a teaching aid in that form than as a dead body cut to bits by medical students.

Bedhead · 18-01-2006, 11:23

Quite fascintaing and educational but also quite morbid
DR Death is kinda strange!

I agree that morally it doesn't seem quite right - in this format at least

JonnH · 18-01-2006, 11:51

I'd like to watch alot of programs like this but i can't

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I tend to start passing out when things like this are shown even though i'm interested in the content