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"Several dozen villagers and students from Yellow Springs High School and Antioch College assembled at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to protest Operation Desert Storm, which began in full mid-January 1991."
These Georgetown University medical students used donated cadavers in their anatomy class in 2011. Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesIn 1956, Alma Merrick Helms announced that she was bound for Stanford University. But she would not be attending classes. Upon learning that there was a “special shortage of women’s bodies” for medical students, this semiretired actress had filled out forms to donate her corpse to the medical college upon her death. As historians of medicine, we had
Long ago medical students had to rely on cadavers provided to them by grave robbers, but now some people are freely donating their bodies for the good of medical education and research.
Doctors need to cut open dead bodies to learn anatomy, but where do they get them?
Emerging as a collective of potters in 1973, the Yellow Springs Pottery cooperative, currently numbering around nine members, was founded by a group of four women coming together through a mutual love of pottery.