“Medical students were wild about anatomical dissection, and they did a lot of extracurricular and extramural grave robbing.”
calling the actions of the university’s former employee “an abhorrent betrayal” and vowing to “improve security” for the cadaver donation program.But while the allegations are indeed abhorrent, a closer look at the history of how medical schools have exchanged cadavers shows that last week’s indictment is not quite the anomaly you might think: Medical education was built on stealing bodies.
For Benjamin Reiss, an English professor at Emory University who studies the history of medicine, the particular details of what happened at Harvard were surprising, but the essence of what happened felt eerily familiar. The commercialization and stealing of dead bodies in the early 19century was “essential to medical education,” he said.
There are important differences between this history and the Harvard morgue story. The bodies stolen by the rogue Harvard employee and his co-conspirators were first donated to the university by families, and only stolen later. The stealing of bodies in this case is representative of a small black market these days, not the basis for an entire medical education system.
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