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Postmortem, Ep. 4: The anatomy lab artwork
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Postmortem, Ep. 4: The anatomy lab

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May 1, 202400:23:47Society & Culture

As haunting as the Harvard morgue scandal is, you don't have to go back very far in history to find practices for sourcing bodies that would be shocking today. Reporter Ally Jarmanning finds that for more than a century,...

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