Susan Potter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Susan Potter

American disability rights activist and body donor for the Visible Human project

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1927

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Feb-2015

Profession: activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Susan Potter

  • Susan Christina Potter (née Witschel; 25 December 1927– 16 February 2015) was a cancer survivor, a disability rights activist and a body donor for the Visible Human Project.
  • During the 15 years between signing on to the project in 2000 and her death by pneumonia in 2015 at the age of 87, Potter became a public figure and an outspoken advocate for medical education, mentoring medical students at the University of Colorado.For nearly two decades, National Geographic documented the story of Susan Potter and Dr.
  • Victor M.
  • Spitzer, the director of the Center for Human Simulation at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus who led the NIH-funded project, releasing a video documentary in 2018.
  • By the time Potter met Spitzer in 2000, she had gone through 26 surgeries and had been diagnosed with melanoma, breast cancer and diabetes: her participation in the Visible Human Project marked a significant departure from the original goals of the project, which up until then had only focused on the dissection and imaging of healthy bodies.
  • When in the early 2000s, the National Geographic magazine started covering her story, Potter had been in a major car accident, was confined to a wheelchair, and was expected to die within a year.
  • Instead, her life continued for another 14 years, during which she developed a friendship with Dr Spitzer.After her death in 2015, Potter's body was frozen solid at -15 °F (-26 °C), cut in four sections on March 9, 2017 and subsequently sliced into 27,000 slices in 63-µm increments, individually scanned during a period of 60 working days.
  • Because the technology used in the Visible Human project significantly improved since its launch in 1993, much more detail will be available in Potter's scans: images from the two previous donors were based on 1,000 µm sections for the male subject and 300 µm for the female subject.

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