BU Today: An Afternoon Inside Sargent’s Cadaver Lab
(12/18/19, BU Today)
In a windowless room in the basement of Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, the day has finally arrived. It’s the Big Dissection.
Two cadavers lie on gurneys in the back of the room under sharp fluorescent lights. Over the course of the semester so far, the graduate students have dissected their musculature. But on this Sunday afternoon, while most of New England is watching the Patriots game, these students are ready—eager, even—to open a dead body and dissect several major organs, including a human heart.
