Every year, first-year medical students approach their human cadavers with a mixture of awe and trepidation. They will come to know their assigned cadaver intimately. During the course of their ...

Journalists are often compared to vultures. last week, as we circled the corpse Professor Gunther von Hagens splayed open in London’s first public autopsy since the practice was banned 170 years ago, ...

Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced human anatomy dissection team. The members of the dissection team meet each Friday to dissect human cadavers ...

Renaissance Anatomy in the Americas: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the Earliest Skeletal Evidence of Autopsy in the New World / Crist, Thomas A. (et al.) -- Evidence for Early Seventeenth-Century ...

Corpses are often donated to further scientific research but the use of one body in particular resulted in controversy. On Oct. 17, 2021, the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront hotel in Oregon ...

Considered the ultimate medical audit, an autopsy can be categorized by five different rulings for cause of death: natural, accident, homicide, suicide, or undetermined. Not everyone receives an ...

Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case. You vote on your ...