Who Owns Your Body?

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Dana Murchison - Staff Scientist | BodyZone Lab - 2012-06-21


Do we own our bodies, or are we our bodies? Do we have a responsibility to keep our bodies healthy, or to give blood, tissue or organs to help others? What happens when you donate your body to science? And how much control do any of us really have over what happens to our bodies when we die?

These questions and many more were discussed on Tuesday, June 12th at a Science Café event titled “Who Owns Your Body?”. If you missed out, you can still catch the discussion by listening to the audio podcast at the link below.

Our panelists for the evening were Dr. David A. Maclean, Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Sciences at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and Dr. Carol Collier, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sudbury. Trillium Gift of Life Network kindly provided materials to share about the importance of organ donation.

To register or check your status in Ontario’s organ donor registry, visit https://beadonor.ca/science-north. It only takes 2 minutes and each organ donor can save the lives of up to 8 people.

Want to continue the conversation? Add a comment below or use the hashtag #SNBodyWorlds on Twitter.

Click here to listen to the podcast

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