Corpus vile

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Corpus vile (from Latin corpus body, vile worthless) is used in Latin as a phrase to make it clear that an object, possibly also a living being, is treated so inferiorly that it is only used as a test object. In doing so, no thought is given to the damage he / it could suffer as a result.

Test animals can therefore be referred to as corpora vilia (plural). Nonetheless, one should consider the potential benefits humanity can derive from the knowledge gained.

In the 1971 film Uhrwerk Orange by Stanley Kubrick , the protagonist Alex can also be described as the corpus vile of science, as a new type of therapy is carried out on him, which is intended to condition the violent youth .

The title of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies is a nod to this phrase.