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From grave robbing to giving your own body to science – a short history of where medical schools get cadavers

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 ....

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Where do medical schools get cadavers?

For decades, medical schools faced a shortage of cadavers, prompting some students to rob graves so they had corpses to dissect. Many states later made the bodies of the unclaimed poor available for science, but the shortage finally broke for good in the late-1950s, when body donations became more popular. ....

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UAHT adds new anatomy technology to the classroom

HOPE/TEXARKANA, Ark. The University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana recently purchased anatomy technology that instructors say will enhance health professions and science instruction for years to come. ....

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