The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, which boasts objects collected by departments across the University, launched a new exhibit about the study of human anatomy and dissection at the ...

So-called resurrectionists pilfered graves for corpses and trundled them off to hospitals. An outraged public occasionally ...

The history of autopsy and dissection of human bodies in the United States may seem like an innocuous topic, a necessary means to study life and its inevitable end. But in the 19th century, the vast ...

I. THE GREEKS TO 50 B.C. -- The Prescientific Stage -- The schools of Sicily, Ionia, and Cos, 550 B.C.-400 B.C. -- The Early Athenian Period: Plato, Diocles, 400 B.C ...

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse online exhibition (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic) A handy map of gibbets visualizes how widespread public execution sites once were around the ...

An image from "Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930," by John Harley Warner and James Edmonson, shows the tomfoolery of students back in the day. (Dittrick ...