Anatomy for beginners

sillild

Channel 4 mondays 23:00

Do you think it is real ?

Shock tv or education ?

BuffyBot

Why is it shock TV? Med students and researchers have been doing it for years..

sillild

BuffyBot wrote:

Why is it shock TV? Med students and researchers have been doing it for years..

I did not say it was Shock TV I meerly asked the question hence the (?)

Dont get me wrong I was really entertained and enjoyed this.

However if this was supposed to be educational even to and especially the "beginner" then it would have been less "penn and teller" and more open university.

There is no doubt this programme was meant to shock.

sillild

shocking or not ?

BuffyBot

sillild wrote:

I did not say it was Shock TV I meerly asked the question hence the (?)

Dont get me wrong I was really entertained and enjoyed this.

However if this was supposed to be educational even to and especially the "beginner" then it would have been less "penn and teller" and more open university.

There is no doubt this programme was meant to shock.

So you're not saying it was shock TV, then you come along say there is no doubt it was meant to shock :rolleyes:

What was "Penn and Teller" about it, as you say?

karlh

very interesting and not as hard to watch as i thought it would be. im slightly squeemish when it comes to that sort of thing but the guys creepy german accent kinda made it seem less serious and easier to watch

i think its a very important thing since most people will never get the chance to see the human body in that way. might bring some people to respect it a bit more! movement was a great one to start with, the tendons in the hand bit was a bit creepy ...

galactus

sillild wrote:

shocking or not ?

A matter of opinion. That's like asking "do you like strawberry jam"

Examople - my better half got over her initial distaste ("this is gross, i think i'm going to be sick") and became fascinated with the program.

The only thing i didn't like about the show was Dr. Gunther's Freddie Kruger-type hat!

JDxtra

I think he wears that hat for a reason. I noticed a large scar at the base of his skull on last nights show. Probably tried to examine his own brain...!

galactus

Last night's body looked a lot fresher

BuffyBot

He said that is was untreated .. i.e. unpreserved unlike the first nights.

Pigman II

I agree with the 'Penn and Teller' comments. For example if they only wanted to show slices of a human brain then they just have just prepared them earlier and wheeled them out on a trolley. Showing it being shoved into and cut up by a bacon slicer was just for pure shock value and macarbe titilation. In that particular case it was nearly all about the cutting and hardly anything about the education and that was the feeling I got with nearly every segment of the show I caught.

That said tho the only thing that shocked me tho was that the male model didn't get a boner when that sexy artist was drawing all over him. Maybe she wasn't his type.

galactus

Pigman II wrote:

it was nearly all about the cutting

Well it's an autopsy...

Pigman II wrote:

...and hardly anything about the education and that was the feeling I got with nearly every segment of the show I caught.

Depends where you're coming from. Are you a med student or doctor? Its anatomy for beginners as it says on the tin. FWIW, i think the whole thing's been relatively low key and in good...eh...taste .

BuffyBot

Showing it being shoved into and cut up by a bacon slicer was just for pure shock value and macarbe titilation

How do you think they cut brains any other time?

Pigman II

BuffyBot wrote:

How do you think they cut brains any other time?

Where did I suggest or imply that it was done any other way?

My point that this show was clearly revelling in each new opportunity to hack & cut and as far as the producers were concerned anything that might happen to have been learned by the viewers of this demonstration was just a happy coincidence. As such it should probably have been called 'dissection for beginners' not 'anatomy for beginners'

galactus

Onto the digestive system last night. Intestines to the fore. Chuffed I correctly identified the epiglotis before Dr. Gunter mentioned it.

Reproduction tonight!

BuffyBot

My point that this show was clearly revelling in each new opportunity to hack & cut

I don't think they were "revelling" in anything, just going about it as quickly as possible.

eoinm1

I watched the show on the digestive system and found it interesting.
I also watched the autopsy he performed last year as well and found it very interesting.

I think there is a place for this type of program. In years gone by the gerneral public could view a live autopsy.

Eóin

Kazujo

I thought the show was very well done, you have to remember that it is a television show so there is a need for an amount of dramatic and entertainment vlaue. If it was just a pure dry autopsy program like open university would do, alot of people probably wouldn't have watched it. The show was put together in an entertaining and educational way to get across a subject that alot of people would not normally watch.

But in saying that they did not go over the top, I only saw the digestive system and reproduction and I found it very tastefully done (as tasteful as you can get considering the subject matter) I hope they repeat it so I can see the first few episodes.

Mossy Monk

i stumbled onto this programme the other night, is this the same guy that broadcast a live autopsy a while back