NBC News exposed how the bodies of the unclaimed poor are dissected and leased out for medical research without people’s consent or their families’ knowledge. The reporting helped families ...
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. The ...
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research ... the Fort Worth-based center had dissected, studied and leased out ...
"Accepting unclaimed bodies at all was unacceptable. Even people with no surviving next of kin do not deserve to be dissected after death without their consent." Commissioners in Dallas County ...
As documented by Dr. David Pilgrim, curator of the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University in Michigan, it was exactly 137 years ago on March 17, 1888 that the ...