RESPECT FOR CADAVERS

Why a London museum should return the stolen bones of an Irish giant

Thomas L Muinzer | 09 June 2018 | Comments

tags: burial, respect for cadavers, respect for dead

Some 250 years after his body was taken, it’s time to accord Charles Byrne the respectful burial he deserves

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Let death be didactic

Michael Cook | 11 November 2017 | Comments

tags: cremation, respect for body, respect for cadavers

Why not return to the ancient practice of burying the dead instead of cremating them?

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40 years after, Scottish mother still mourns the son a hospital stole from her

Michael Cook | 30 September 2017 | Comments

tags: alder hey scandal, respect for cadavers, scotland

Body used for tissue samples or organs

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Another abortion battle in Texas, this time over how to dispose of tissue

Michael Cook | 03 December 2016 | Comments

tags: abortion, respect for cadavers, texas

A policy of cremation or burial has become a major political and ethical dispute

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More donating their bodies to science

Michael Cook | 20 August 2016 | Comments

tags: cadaver donations, cremation, donating bodies to science, respect for cadavers

Rising cost of burials could be responsible

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The taint of Nazi medicine lingers on

Michael Cook | 09 November 2013 | Comments

tags: anatomy, nazi doctors, respect for cadavers

Some areas of anatomy still carry the taint of Nazi atrocities.

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Chinese abortion story: urban myth or gruesome scandal?

Michael Cook | 20 August 2011 | Comments

tags: abortion, China, respect for cadavers

China’s Health Ministry is taking the gruesome story of aborted babies ground into powder and used as aphrodisiacs seriously enough to launch an official investigation. SBS, one of the three major national television networks in South Korea, broadcast a documentary earlier this month about capsules from China containing dead baby flesh.

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Flawed papers based on unethical UK research remain unretracted

Jared Yee | 20 August 2011 | Comments

tags: informed consent, respect, respect for cadavers, UK

Research papers based on body parts taken from hundreds of dead children without their parents’ consent were “fundamentally flawed,” according to a January 2001 report. However, over a decade later, Nature News reports that only one of those papers has been removed from the scientific record. The lack of action – even in what seems to be a clear-cut case – could point to reluctance by institutions and journals in retracting papers when the authors stand by the results.

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Do mummies have a right to privacy?

Jared Yee | 20 September 2010 | Comments

tags: human body, respect for cadavers

Challenging assumptions