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The Resurrection Men

The business of acquiring and selling dead bodies for medical research and science

For centuries, students of medicine have dissected the dead. But the idea of wilfully donating one鈥檚 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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