Cadavers: Where are they used? Cadavers have been used for centuries. Mostly for dissection to learn about the human body, but now they take on a lot of different purposes besides dissection. In the early days of trying to learn about the human body, people were not allowed to use cadavers because of religious purposes. They used pigs, primates, and even their own imagination to draw the human body. Eventually, these other animals and imagination were not working. Andreas Vesalius was the first to dissect a human cadaver (BrainBlogger 2011). Since then, cadavers have gained popularity for testing things that would keep the living safe. “Over the past sixty years, the dead have helped the living work out human tolerance limits for skull slamming’s
