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 ...

Examining the dark history of anatomical dissection through the centuries—and why the need for study on human donors is as vital as it’s ever been. Dr. Cornelis Isaaks 's-Gravesande conducts an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illustration of a dissection in Fasciculus Medicinae (first published 1491, edition from 1495) (courtesy the New York Academy of Medicine) In a series for the first day of each month, Hyperallergic is ...

In a special issue of the journal The Anatomical Record published today, the American Association for Anatomy (AAA) is proactively addressing the complex, painful, and sometimes unethical history of ...