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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every year, first-year medical students approach their human cadavers with a mixture of awe and trepidation. When the long process of dissection is complete, the cadavers are cremated, with the ...

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, ...

Leaf through a textbook, watch a wellness influencer, or listen in at the gym, and it can feel as though the human body has ...

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 ...