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Vol 4 No 4: New immortalities: Death, donation, and dedication in the twenty-first century

When the dead teach: Exploring the postvital life of cadavers in Danish dissection labs

  • Maria Olejaz
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.4.310
Submitted
November 26, 2015
Published
November 6, 2020

Abstract

This article follows the postvital lives of bodies donated to science, exploring their continuing material and social lives after the donor has died. I explore how the postmortem wishes of those who decide to donate their bodies to science intersect with