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I feel like that was murder and the exploration of bodies was secondary to that. And other times he was just torturing them because he wanted to torture them.
by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
I feel like that was murder and the exploration of bodies was secondary to that. And other times he was just torturing them because he wanted to torture them. I meant something more like a person pretending to be a neurosurgeon so they could attempt to perform surgeries, like removing a tumor. Murderers desecrating bodies isn't what I would call neurosurgery.
- kragen 7y agoDahmer also performed neurosurgery on some of his victims while they were still alive, but not in order to torture them, more for power reasons. There have also been numerous cases of people faking medical abilities (including, roughly, every doctor before 1800) but I don't think we can unambiguously attribute any one of them to a strong desire to cut apart human bodies.
- bjornsing 7y agoYea, it’s worth remembering in this context that 1949’s Nobel prize in medicine was awarded to the doctor who invented the medical intervention we now call lobotomy.