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The Harvard Morgue

Campus Files

Audacy

Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

4.67.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Few people know that most of our modern medical knowledge is based on centuries old research using human remains, often stolen. While those practices are thankfully gone today, the market for human remains is as strong as ever. In 2023, the public got a glimpse into that world when the Harvard Morgue was implicated in the illegal trade of human remains. For a transcript of this episode: https://bit.ly/campusfiles-transcripts To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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and medical expertise.

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But that knowledge rests on a foundation that few people talk about.

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In the early days of modern medicine, doctors needed a way to study the human body.

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There were no x-rays, no MRI machines, so dissection was the only option.

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But there was a major problem.

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No one wanted to volunteer their body to science.

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So, medical schools turned to grave robbers. In some cases, they even sent medical students

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to dig up the recently buried. Horrifying as it sounds, this was how anatomy was taught, and how

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