Traditionally, the cadavers being dissected were real human beings who donated their bodies to science before their death, and the process of dissecting—or at least inspecting—a cadaver gives ...

And I can’t help but wonder: What will be lost when medical students are no longer made to uncomfortably face death to learn from what a real human body can teach? In the cadaver lab ...

We talked about the value of learning from a real body, and how Congress might be able to save cadaver-based medical education. For more on 19th-century grave-robbing, read Antero Pietila’s ...

The technology, is advantageous from a cost standpoint, as labs that use real cadavers can be very expensive. “The number of undergraduate programs (using the digital cadaver table) are few,” Gordon ...