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Medical Schools Hold Memorials for Medical Cadavers

More medical universities are adopting this practice

Whole body donation plays an important role in a medical student’s education. And today, more medical schools are honoring those who donated their bodies to science and medical study. Memorials for medical cadavers have become a common practice at the … Continue reading

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What Is Whole Body Donation? An Interview with Andrew Corson, Part Two

The director of the UCSF Willed Body Program talks to us about donating a body to science

This is the second of a two-part SevenPonds interview with Andrew Corson, Director of the Willed Body Program at the University of California, San Francisco. (Read part one here.) A division of the UCSF Department of Anatomy, the program provides … Continue reading

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What Is Whole Body Donation? An Interview with Andrew Corson, Part One

The Director of the Willed Body Program at UCSF talks to us about donating a body to science

This is the first of a two-part SevenPonds interview with Andrew Corson, Director of the Willed Body Program at the University of California, San Francisco. A division of the UCSF Department of Anatomy, the program provides donated human remains to … Continue reading

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