Medical students are required to memorize such a huge number
of facts — from the anatomy and
physiology of every structure in the
human body to the fine details
of thousands
of tests, diagnoses, and treatments — that they generally do not have time to critique the information they must cram into their
heads.
The
head of Flinders University's department
of human physiology, Professor Simon Brookes, doesn't dispute that some patients do feel lighter, or cleansed after a good ol' rinse, but he pins it on a placebo effect.
A study at Georgetown University went as far as claiming that there is «limited clinical evidence validating colon therapy as a health promotion practice» — a thesis shared by the
head of Flinders University's department
of human physiology, Professor Simon Brookes.
The show will include important works such as Away from the Flock, one
of his first vitrine artworks, which features a sheep suspended in formaldehyde, Trinity - Pharmacology,
Physiology, Pathology (2000); Monument to the Living and the Dead (2006), his photo With Dead
Head, in which a grinning Hirst, aged 16, posed with a severed human head at the city's morgue and Butterfly (20
Head, in which a grinning Hirst, aged 16, posed with a severed
human head at the city's morgue and Butterfly (20
head at the city's morgue and Butterfly (2004).