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NEWS ABOUT: cadaver

cadaver stories: 4 news summaries

 Corpse 
 Sex Show 
 Stirs Up Swiss 

Exhibit ignites outrage in Europe

Sep 16, 09 3:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - German anatomist Gunther von Hagens just opened his traveling corpse sex show in Zurich and is steeled for controversy, reports Gawker. Von Hagens discovered a way to plasticize human bodies and has exhibited corpses stripped of their skin all over the world doing various activities. His latest show revealing bodies... More »

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Europe • Switzerland • sex • Zurich • Grateful Dead • Gunther von Hagens • cadaver • Life Cycles

 Cadaver Fence Gets 10 Years 


Jun 12, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - A man convicted of fencing cadavers stolen from UCLA's willed body program has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, NBC reports. The lawyer for Ernest Nelson, 51, argued that his client’s sales to big-name customers such as Johnson & Johnson were all above board, and that the only... More »

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organ trafficking • UCLA • cadaver • Ernest Nelson

UCLA Body Parts Peddler Found Guilty

Businessman carved up donated cadavers to
sell parts for profit

May 15, 09 4:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A businessman who carved up bodies donated to UCLA's medical school and sold them off to research companies has been found guilty of grand theft, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ernest Nelson raked in over $1.5 million from the scheme, which he conspired to carry out with the director... More »

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conviction • UCLA • grand theft • bodies • body parts • cadaver • Ernest Nelson

(Newser) - A Taiwanese medical school is responding to the island nation’s shortage of cadavers for study by bringing the family of the deceased fully into the program, the Wall Street Journal reports. At Tzu Chi University, medical students meet with donors' families and even compose poems to their “... More »

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China • surgery • Taiwan • corpse • donation • Buddhism • medical schools • cadaver • Tzu Chi University

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