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EPISODE · Jun 9, 2015 · 27 MIN

The Resurrection Men

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2015 · host BBC World Service

For centuries, students of medicine have dissected the dead. But the idea of wilfully donating one’s body to medicine is somewhat new. People donating their bodies to science has sufficed the medical demand for cadavers until recently. Now the burgeoning demand for bodies and body parts has created a strange new industry in America.

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