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

  • Written by Susan Lawrence, Profesor of History, University of Tennessee
From grave robbing to giving your own body to science – a short history of where medical schools get cadaversThese Georgetown University medical students used donated cadavers in their anatomy class in 2011.Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In 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...

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