"Martha Henson, 2012. Digital video (7 minutes)
On Wednesdays at Hammersmith Hospital in London, a few recently preserved human brains are dissected according to an international protocol and stored in a tissue bank for further research. The brains have mostly been donated by people with Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis (both degenerative and incurable diseases of the central nervous system), but control samples of healthy brains are required too. This documentary is a modified version of one which appears in the Brains exhibition at Wellcome Collection, with an added commentary from the neuropathologist, Steve Gentleman. It conveys the craft discipline exercised by scientists in their quest to understand these often-tragic conditions." - YouTube description
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A10anissays...I have donated my body to science, so one day that will be me on the chopping board. All that I was, all that I hoped to be. The laughter, tears, pain and joy. My faults, my attributes. All laid out, clinically, on a chopping board. I try to love life. I will try harder.
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