“Ill-Gotten Brains”: Cadavers for Learning | Berkeley

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Join Megan Curran of USC’s Norris Medical Library for the wild history of sourcing human bodies from the dawn of modern anatomy in the Renaissance through the 19th century’s institutionalized medical school body snatchings, and up to Nazi medicine and the controversy over plastinated bodies in exhibits like Body Worlds.

“Ill-gotten Brains”: The Grisly History of Sourcing Bodies for Anatomical Learning
Date: 10/20/2011
The Bone Room Presents
1573 Solano Ave., Berkeley
Cost: FREE

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