Introduction

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.