Body Donation and its Impact on Medical Research and Education

In the first of two episodes, Zachary Crockett digs into the strange and discomfiting history of cadavers, and the industry that has emerged around them.

RESOURCES:

• "From Grave Robbing to Giving Your Own Body to Science – A Short History of Where Medical Schools Get Cadavers," by Susan Lawrence and Susan E. Lederer (The Conversation, 2023).
• "Box of Human Heads Stolen From Truck in Denver," by Carly Moore (FOX4, 2022).
• "A Body Donated to Science - but Used to Test Bombs," by Rozina Sini (BBC News, 2019).
• "How an American Company Made a Fortune Selling Bodies Donated to Science," by John Shiffman and Brian Grow (Reuters, 2017).
• "From Sacrilege to Privilege: The Tale of Body Procurement for Anatomical Dissection in the United States," by Raphael Hulkower (The Einstein Journal of Biology and Medicine, 2011).
• The Anatomy Murders, by Lisa Rosner (2010).

SOURCES:

• Kaylan Goodwin, vice president of marketing at Science Care.
• Susan Lawrence, professor and head of the history department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.