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Donated to Science

Film in which people who planned to donate their bodies to the Otago Medical School for students to dissect talk about their lives, loves, hopes, fears and, of course, bodies.

In 2006, a New Zealand television company interviewed several people who planned to donate their bodies to the Otago Medical School for students to dissect. They were asked about their lives and their loves, their hopes, their fears and, of course, their bodies. The school is one of the last in the world whose students still do significant human dissection, and both they and the donors gave permission to be followed through the whole process. By intercutting the donors' interviews with their own bodies being dissected and the students' reactions for the first time on film, there is the chance to share the amazing journey of the students, the donors and their families.

55 minutes

Last on

Wed 14 Dec 2011 01:55

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