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There will never be enough cadaver organs to fill the growing needs of people dying from organ or tissue failure. This places higher and higher importance, and risk, on living relatives who might serve as donors. Organs that are either redundant (one of a pair of kidneys) or regenerative (bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When One Body Can Save Another | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

The grim trade in living people's kidneys would not be necessary if more people would voluntarily offer their kidneys (and other organs) when they die. Another socialist philosopher, Richard Titmuss, wrote a famous book two decades ago called The Gift Relationship, extolling the virtues of donated blood over purchased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Take My Kidney, Please | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Spector has denied that the cadaver parts were sold for profit. He said his actions had been unfairly portrayed as a disservice to the medical profession.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Cuts | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

Holden Chapel, which he says was the first cadaver room of the Harvard Medical School, also abounds with ghosts. "And in Massachusetts Hall," he says, "there are a couple of ghosts who are passing as people."

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Fearsome Phantoms Lurking in the Ivy ... | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

Leonardo dissected bodies and drew what he found for two reasons. He wanted to systematize the scientific study of anatomy at a time-the late 15th century-when the human skin was the frontier of unknown territory. He also wanted to deepen his understanding of the muscular frame, whose shapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beyond the Skin's Frontier | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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