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

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par Susan Lawrence, Profesor of History, University of Tennessee
Susan E. Lederer, Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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 bodies” for medical students, this semiretired actress had filled out forms to donate her corpse to the medical college upon her death.

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