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If, on a bright September morning, you were to walk into the anatomy laboratory of a typical North American faculty of medicine, one of the first things to strike you might be the smell of formaldehyde — next the air of calm, studious concentration of white coated figures, men and women in teams of four, bent over their gleaming stainless steel tanks. Moving closer to one of the groups, and glancing over a medical student’s shoulder, you might be horrified to see that the young man or woman was contemplating a cadaver, perhaps its face and midriff draped, a lab manual or textbook nearby opened for easy consultation to help in identifying elements of a neatly dissected portion of human anatomy.
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Lella, J.W., Pawluch, D. (1988). Medical Students and the Cadaver in Social and Cultural Context. In: Lock, M., Gordon, D. (eds) Biomedicine Examined. Culture, Illness and Healing, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2725-4_6
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