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State Supreme Court tosses lawsuit over lost cadaver
Legal Newsline ^ | 4-8-08

Posted on 04/08/2009 3:44:51 PM PDT by jasonmyos

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)-The California Supreme Court has tossed a lawsuit over a lost cadaver, ruling that medical schools have no legal responsibility to "safeguard the sensibilities" of donors' families.

The suit against the University of California at Irvine was brought by Evelyn Conroy after she learned that whereabouts of her husband's remains were unknown...

(Excerpt) Read more at legalnewsline.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: cadaver; california; highereducation; lawsuit; medicalschool

1 posted on 04/08/2009 3:44:51 PM PDT by jasonmyos
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To: jasonmyos
The Court's actions here do nothing to encourage others to "donate" organs or bodies.

That's why your typical American medical school graduate ends up sharing a cadaver with one or more other students yet his her third-world competitor will end up with a new cadaver EVERY MONTH for the 3 or 4 years it takes to go through the course of study.

2 posted on 04/08/2009 3:54:25 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: jasonmyos

Tar and feathers or a rope?

LLS


3 posted on 04/08/2009 3:59:28 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: muawiyah
That's why your typical American medical school graduate
ends up sharing a cadaver with one or more other students

Our dissection group had 6 students per cadaver
It was, without question,
an intensely dehumanizing experience

4 posted on 04/08/2009 4:09:43 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge

To share the cadaver or to see how it was handled despite number of students per?


5 posted on 04/08/2009 4:38:16 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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