Anatomy for beginners- channel 4 programme

**chunkichik** · 20-01-2005, 03:53

Don't know if anyone has seen the advert for this, but next monday night they will start a four part series, actually disecting a human body and showing you how everything works!!!!

Its being carried out by the same guy that did the post-mortem a year or so back.

Personally, not being in the slightest bit squeamish, I will find this fascinating, just wondered if anyone else would be brave enough to watch it?

Anita

**Nostromo** · 20-01-2005, 11:03

It is not a question of bravery, but one cannot really show "how everything works" by dissecting a cadaver. We did our dissection in the first 18 months of Medical School to learn basic anatomy and I doubt if it can be effectively shown in 4 hours. But if you're really interested in the workings of the human body, I suggest you get the DVD "The Human Body" made by BBC a few years ago.

SG · 20-01-2005, 11:20

Thanks for posting this Anita. I had no idea it was on but will look out for it now. Like you this sort of thing fascinates me.

**LiesaAnna** · 20-01-2005, 11:30

yes this sort of thing fascinates me to! but sometimes it plays on my mind! i watch PM's to, and then wished i hadnt!
think as much as i want to watch might have to give it a miss, i start thinking of it ALL the time![xx(]

**chunkichik** · 20-01-2005, 20:11

I must be a strange sort of person, nothing like that has ever bothered me, I have never been scared by a particularly scary film or anything like that.

It probably goes back to my childhood, my Dad says that when I was about 3 I came downstairs one night and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell was on, he was trying to stand in front of the TV so I couldn't see them cutting the top of his head off and apparantally, I was telling him to get out of the way so I could see the blood!!!! (i hear sirens!!!, damn who called the men in white coats?)[msnwink]

**amy** · 20-01-2005, 21:50

Thankfully no one has invented smell-a-vision yet, as the smell is by far the worst part of any PM.

**LiesaAnna** · 21-01-2005, 00:11

yeh alright to much info!!!

**Chloe** · 21-01-2005, 01:30

I can see that this sort of thing is interesting - it is to me too. But.... the idea of it makes me feel a bit uneasy somehow. It does not seem quite right to show on television the taking apart of a body that was once a person,who was once someones loved one, who lived,breathed and felt things. Sentiments are a very personal trait, and we all differ. No doubt it will get a mixed bag of reviews the day after, which in TV is probably the name of the game.
Chloe