You may find Ballard's willingness to imbue the cadaver, during the very act of its disincorporation, with the mortal elements of an individual life … well, disturbing.
The proud parents met five years earlier, at the university's medical school, where Janet caught sight of Michael's black beard and fancy waistcoat above the cadaver he was dissecting and decided that he might be a bit fast but she'd risk it.
Verdict: Clever Clegg sounded too self-regarding, and the Penitent Sinner couldn't quite dispel the embarrassment of seeing him cadaver-like the day after the worst election gaffe in British history, so I suspect that gives victory to Cameron.
She comes down, as you might expect, in favour of incentive payments to donors, and suggests four basic models:1 A forward market for cadaver organs (I like this one) in which you sign up to have your organs harvested at death, and receive a small payment on signing or a large one to your estate when you die 2 A centralised single compensator.
And unlike a physical autopsy it does not alter evidence, enabling investigators to revisit a cadaver for additional clues if necessary.
"We are firm supporters of mandatory independent third-party accreditation," says Melinda Ellsworth of Science Care, one of the largest cadaver-service firms.
Medical schools also cover some funeral expenses, but cadaver-service firms boast that they will return the remains to grieving relatives more quickly, and with less fuss.
A good cadaver is generally young, fully intact and not too obese or riddled with disease.
These enzymes (discovered in the 1970s by Dr Smith, in work that won him a Nobel prize) would lurk in the DNA-free cadaver and cut up the synthetic genome before it was able to do its stuff.
WHEN a healthy two-year-old giraffe called Marius was slaughtered with a bolt-gun in Copenhagen Zoo, publicly dissected in front of an audience of schoolchildren and had his cadaver fed to the lions, the event provoked a worldwide outcry.
"Cadaver-service firms" (or body-brokers) act as middle men between donors and end-users.
