Usc Sold Dead Bodies to U.s. Military to Train Idf Medical Personnel
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The University of Southern California (USC) allegedly sold dead bodies to the US military to train Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) medical personnel, sparking controversy and outrage in the comments.
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Seems like “noble” (?) life-saving trainings to me. I personally wouldn’t oppose to my body being used for that borderline medical use-case.
But there are those who will say “Over my dead body!”
Some medic friends were telling me (top UK universities, passing all possible ethics tick boxes) that learning on cadavers was super creepy. Since they are in short supply, you would often "work" on bodies already well used by other medical groups. You could be poking around the stomach after all the teeth were removed by dentistry students, limbs amputated by surgeons, head hacked about by neurologists and goodness knows what else. I suppose, weirdly, it's a mark of respect - it's a great thing to donate your body for students to learn, and you don't want to waste it.
But is very messy at the best of times.
During their research and in doing the paperwork, the decedent or their next of kin were asked for affirmative consent to all sorts of awful sounding things. The wording is as delicate as they can make it given the need to be very clear about the kinds of research you’re consenting to. I was told they had been in touch with a for-profit organization that was quite distasteful.
But it is unethical to pay people to donate blood.
I have lost all hope that I will ever understand how the world works .