The Body As An Object Of Medical Research

http://listverse.com/2009/01/08/top-10-bizarre-medical-anomalies/

Above: this article is about rare medical disorders. It shows 10 images of rare diseases exploited to the world for their differences, labelled as freaks. some are normal well known diseases but on a large scale on the individual.
the iages are shocking and disturbing, they are quite hard to look at. It is also uncomforting to think this individual is suffering with this disease and they have to live with the bad publicity they must get for being diferent.
Because some of the mishapen body parts and growths they can appear quite unidentifiable they can look more like an object rather than a living part of the human body. when it comes to the actual research on the human body, the body does need to be treated as an object, if you treated the body as if it still had feelings there wouldnt have been half the medical break throughs there have been in medical history.
On the subject of not treating the body as an object, this way of medical research is quite a humanitarian aproch to thestudy as aposed to soe of the medical testing that happened in history where some of the patients were still alive when the study was taken and most of whom it was against their will.

http://insidevancouver.ca/2010/09/15/body-worlds-exhibit-opens-at-science-world-tomorrow/

This is an article about an exhibition that was held in museums all over the world. The exhibition presents real human bodys that have been preserved and displayed in positions such as hitting a ball. You can see from the photographs all the muscles and tissue that make up the human body. The body's seem to be exploited in front of hundreds of people as if this was never a person with feelings. As the only mammal to have conciousness it's a little unsettling to think they are now being observed as an object and as an unnatural form of the human body.
Obviously all the body in the exhibition have come from people who have given concent for their bodys to be used for medical research, but from a human point of view it is quite hard looking at them without them having a personality.