Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced human anatomy dissection team. The members of the dissection team meet each Friday to dissect human cadavers ...

Every Friday afternoon, 60 students cram into three laboratory spaces. Those labs have a distinct smell: ethanol and other chemicals, preserving four human cadavers. More than half of the 60 students ...

AMES, Iowa – In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of a monogastric digestive system, Alexandra Else-Keller reminded an animal science student how to position her fingers as ...

To learn more about WSU’s Willed Body Program, call (509) 368-6600, email [email protected] or visit them online at medicine.wsu.edu/give/willed-body-program ...

Human anatomy class is a right of passage for medical school students, but the bodies they dissect tend to be an afterthought. Who can know the story behind this person on the lab table before them ...

AMES, Iowa – A new anatomy laboratory at Iowa State University is nearing the end of its first year offering students an opportunity to study human cadavers donated for teaching purposes. The anatomy ...

The College of Health Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso has opened a new Human Cadaver Anatomy Teaching Laboratory. It is located in the basement of the Campbell Building, and is ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The life-sized drawing of the cadaver is titled "Table 8." About six feet long, it shows the human body in a state of partial dissection, with flaps of leathery skin peeled back to ...

Alexandra Wuopio, a first-year medical student at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, recently spent days of intense study huddled with several classmates and one other person — someone none of ...

NEW YORK — For hundreds of years, physicians have been dissecting the dead to learn about the inner workings of the human body. While the subject matter itself hasn't changed much, the study of ...

Meditations on Mortality From the Human Anatomy Lab By Christine Montross Penguin Press. 295 pp. $24.95 Some of us, maybe most, are thankful for skin. We're the ones who fear that listening to ...

As its title indicates, this is a book for use in a practical comparative anatomy course. It is intended for a somewhat unusual class of student, and consequently its contents, outlook, and method of ...