Each cadaver lies face up on an individual table. Beneath the table are buckets, saws and other tools needed for dissection. Overhead are video cameras. On the walls are large screens. The ...

As a result, dissection was not included in our curriculum ... and their eyes were open. Coming face-to-face with a body in that raw state was one of the most powerful moments of my first year ...

Before then all U. S. medical schools relied mainly on body snatchers for their corpses. Bodies sold for dissection usually came from undertaking parlors and graveyards. As late as 1893 when Johns ...

The cadaver scarcity was growing acute even before the war. For dissection, modern medical schools have to depend almost entirely on derelict, unclaimed bodies. Wartime prosperity, a long-range ...

Saint Louis University’s Adventures in Medicine and Science (AIMS) program allows students to participate in an interactive human cadaver demonstration and dissection at the University’s practical ...