American Civil War Medical & Surgical Antiques features this diploma from an 1869 University of Pennsylvania course in practical anatomy:
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Help Tunick study gross anatomy
Spencer Tunick studies gross anatomy, in his own way. You can volunteer to help him. Here’s part of one of his scholarly photographs. (Thanks to Amanda Palmer for bringing this to our attention.)
Coroners & Body Part Sales: Perspective
Some historical perspective for the case of the New Orleans coroner whose election opponent is accusing him of selling body parts: “Whose body is it anyway?: trading the dead poor, coroner’s disputes, and the business of anatomy at Oxford University, 1885-1929,” Elizabeth T. Hurren, Bull Hist Med, Winter 2008;82(4):775-818. The author, at Wellcome Trust Centre […]