New York State Bans Use of Unclaimed Dead as Cadavers Without Consent

Friday, August 19, 2016 - 21:21 in Health & Medicine

A law signed this week ends a 162-year-old system that has required New York City officials to appropriate unclaimed bodies on behalf of medical schools and mortuary schools.

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