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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Mary Roach say patients were better off ignoring doctors' advice?
(a) When advised to be bled.
(b) When advised to eat excrement.
(c) When advised to eat their own flesh.
(d) When advised to use ancestors for medicines.

2. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?
(a) Bodies without clothes.
(b) Fragmented bodies.
(c) Torn aortas.
(d) Burns.

3. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Because it relies on legal sophistries.
(b) Because some research requires whole bodies.
(c) Because it raises the cost through litigation from families.
(d) Because it speaks on the cadaver's behalf.

4. When did injury analysis begin?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1954.

5. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?
(a) It isn't the strangest thing cadavers can be used for.
(b) If the people gave permission, this must be one of the possibilities.
(c) It's better than surgeons making mistakes on live patients.
(d) The skills have to be taught somehow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

2. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?

3. What did dummies prove to investigators?

4. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?

5. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?

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