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butchlifeguard · 8 months ago

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[ID: a headline from NBC news that reads: “Donating your body to science? Nobody wants a chubby corpse.” End ID]

Hey did you know that you can’t escape fatphobia even after death? The article talks about how these donated bodies are used for first year anatomy students to study the body, and how the 'perfect' body for that should be 170-180 pounds.

#this is the best take from the reblogs #also as someone who is. not qualified atm to give my expertise on any of this #why are we pretending that STUDYING MEDICINE should be comfortable for everyone 💀#'nobody wants a chubby corpse' nobody wants to dissect a cow eye at 10 in the morning but we did that shit didnt we #there are possible problems caused by dissecting fat bodies #including the timeline being a little longer. more tissue to dispose of. and yes equipment failures #but if a medical facility cannot give students time to dissect a real body figure out how to dispose of adipose tissue safely+ethically #and provide students with quality lab stations the doctors coming from that facility might be shitty #when i did my first aid/cpr aed training for lifeguarding the people were like #we need to show you a real aed or else you might fuck up when someones life is on the line #and the same thing applies especially for fields like transplant coordination where you need to be VERY aware of how histological #differences will affect human organs. you need to know how fat peoples bodies work or you will fuck up when someones life is on the line #this has already been said. but giving my 2 cents in the tags is addicting to me </3 #fatphobia #id added #ask to tag

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