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In publishing this list, NBC News is sharing only a person’s name, gender, race, age at death, the date their body was delivered to the Health Science Center and whether their body was selected ...
Body donation, anatomical donation, or body bequest is the donation of a whole body after death for research and education. There is usually no cost to donate a body to science; donation programs will often provide a stipend and/or cover the cost of cremation or burial once a donated cadaver has served its purpose and is returned to the family ...
The male cadaver is from Joseph Paul Jernigan, a 39-year-old Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection on August 5, 1993. At the prompting of a prison chaplain he had agreed to donate his body for scientific research or medical use, without knowing about the Visible Human Project.
Further, a person could donate the corpse of a next of kin in exchange for burial at the expense of the anatomy school. Occasionally a person, following the example of Jeremy Bentham, left their own body for dissection in the name of the advancement of science; but even then, if the person's relatives objected, it was not received.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center suspended its body donation program after NBC News exposed how hundreds of unclaimed corpses were dissected without consent.
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This decree stated that a human body would be dissected once every five years for anatomical studies, and that attendance was required for all who were training to or currently practicing medicine or surgery. [7] This led to the first sanctioned human dissection since 300 B.C., which was performed publicly by Mondino de Liuzzi. [7]
Each year, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center receives about 100 bodies that first-year medical students and other aspiring health care professionals spend weeks dissecting.