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
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...