Dead Reckoning
This part of the car is often studied for how it injures the chest during a crash
What is the steering wheel?
These are used alongside cadavers in crash tests to simulate human injuries.
What are crash test dummies?
Crash test dummies lack this human feature that helps researchers study real injuries.
What is soft tissue?
Roach emphasizes that this is key to ethically using cadavers in science
What is consent?
She notes that researchers talk about cadavers like they're this common appliance.
What are refrigerators?
This branch of science studies the motion of bodies and is crucial in crash testing
What is biomechanics?
To simulate real-life crashes, cadavers are often strapped where?
What is the drivers seat?
Dummies cannot simulate this common car accident injury involving the neck.
What is whiplash?
Cadavers are typically donated through this kind of program.
What is a body donation program?
Roach notes that cadavers don't flinch during tests, probably because of this very dead reason.
What is they're already dead?
This university houses one of the most well-known cadaver crash labs visited by Roach.
What is the University of Michigan?
In one crash test, the cadavers head did this, to the researchers satisfaction.
What is flew off and landed in the backseat?
Cadavers provide more realistic data on these two types of fractures.
What are skull and rib fractures?
Roach discusses how researchers balance scientific study with this for the dead.
What is respect/dignity?
Mary muses that some people might find crash test work disturbing, but the only ones really losing their heads are these.
What are the cadavers?
Cadavers offer data crash test dummies can't provide, especially about this internal system.
What is the skeletal system?
Roach notes cadavers often appear to be doing this, due to their relaxed state.
What is sleeping/dozing off?
This tool is used to measure the force of a crash on different parts of the body.
What is a sensor?
The public often struggles with this uncomfortable truth about cadaver use.
What's the real use for them? (or anything similar)
When writing about the relaxed-looking test subject, Roach jokes that he wasn't tense he just had this kind of lifelong calm.
What is the calm of death?
Researchers prefer this type of cadaver to get the most accurate crash data.
What is an unembalmed cadaver?
This type of crash scenario is frequently used to test whiplash effects.
What is a rear-end collision?
This injury threshold, critical to survival rates, can't be accurately measured on dummies.
What is internal organ damage?
Roach compares societies wish to benefit from cadavers without knowing about it to this contradictory desire.
What is wanting the sausage without knowing how its made?
Roach compares the laboratory full of quietly abused cadavers to this eerie type of horror movie setting only more clinical.
What is a zombie movie?