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An Unexpected Education — Unclaimed Bodies in the Anatomy Lab

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  • Mary Peeler, M.D., M.P.H.

For a medical student who discovers the cadaver she used in the anatomy lab was an unclaimed body, the class was a first lesson in the uncomfortable truth that people with less power and fewer advocates can be vulnerable to exploitation by the medical profession.

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Author Affiliations

From the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.

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