Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse online exhibition (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic) A handy map of gibbets visualizes how widespread public execution sites once were around the ...

A Tulsa, Okla. woman charged with mutilating a corpse at a funeral home was convicted and sentenced on a number of related charges on Thursday including burglary, disturbing a funeral and unlawful ...

The son of an elderly Bronx woman whose corpse was mistakenly shipped to a medical school for dissection, is urging Gov. Cuomo to sign a bill that would tighten the procedure for handing over ...

Geza Hoffman, a Jewish student of the University of Fuenfkirchen, against whom it was alleged by several of his fellow-students that he had insulted a corpse during a dissection at the University by ...

A woman has been charged with removing body parts from the corpse of her husband's ex-girlfriend. Shaynna Sims was initially charged with illegal dissection after police in Tulsa, Oklahoma said she ...

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Corpses are often donated to further scientific research but the use of one body in particular resulted in controversy. On Oct. 17, 2021, the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront hotel in Oregon ...

The Vilna Chief Rabbinate has issued a statement dissociating itself from the resolution adopted at the joint conference of Jewish doctors and rabbis authorizing the chief dictor of the Vilna Jewish ...

There are certainly drawbacks to being dead, but let's not forget the benefits. Six feet under. Away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis. Ahhh … peace at last. I'm almost looking forward to ...

Doctors of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital's anatomy department have stumbled upon some papers related to Asia's first human dissection that had been carried out secretly in the city by a ...