The gruesome past of Irish medical education

Shane McCorristine considers the illicit and sometimes horrifying ways teaching institutions used to secure corpses for trainee doctors to learn anatomy

Published on
September 26, 2019
Last updated
September 26, 2019
Shane McCorristine
The interior of a dissecting room: five students and/or teachers dissect a cadaver
Source: Wellcome Collection

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Print headline: Bodysnatching in the name of science

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Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by A-S00024014 on September 26, 2019 - 6:52pm
It is hard to imagine any tangible gains in any science that was not once rooted in or routed through some questionable ethical paths . Basil jide fadipe.
#2 Submitted by Classic on September 27, 2019 - 7:51am
Yes I'm sure someone promoting a book. Well here is the up date even today nobody owns a body in English Law. There are laws surrounding body parts and their disposal but not about the whole body.

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