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Profesor of History, University of Tennessee

These Georgetown University medical students used donated cadavers in their anatomy class in 2011. Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images

March 10, 2023

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

Susan Lawrence, University of Tennessee and Susan E. Lederer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This particularly physical kind of philanthropy caught on in the mid-20th century.

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