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Sep 16, 2019 · According to new research, the dead may not always rest in peace… quite literally. For more than a year after death, corpses move around "significantly", and this finding could be important for forensic investigations.
- Early Exhibits of Human Bodies
- Troubling Transition from Person to Specimen
- Specimen Exhibits Fade, Temporarily
- Adding A Gloss of Scientization to The Dead
For nearly as long as physicians and anatomists have attempted to understand the body, they have attempted to preserve, illustrate and present it. Cabinets of curiosities displayed in the homes of European nobility in the 16th century frequently included human skulls. As civic museums emerged in cities throughout Europe and the United States, some ...
In the quest to rapidly build collections, remains were sometimes collected under highly questionable ethical circumstances. Bodies were removed from graves and sold, gathered from hospitals near exhibitions reminiscent of human zoos, and rounded up haphazardly from battlefields. In the United States, the human body in the late 19th and early 20th ...
With largely unfounded concern, museum administrators, curators and other critics worried audiences would be disgusted when shown vivid details about human anatomy. Gradually, as medical illustrations became better and easier to reproduce in textbooks, the need for demonstrations with real “specimens” seemed to dissipate. First displayed at a World...
People are very often unsettled by seeing what were once living, breathing, human beings—people with emotions and families—turned into scientific specimens intended for public consumption. Despite whatever discomfort emerges, however, the curious appeal of medicalized body displays at public museums lingers, enough so to make them consistently appe...
2 days ago · Couple found dead in water outside Yosemite: ‘James died a hero trying to save his girlfriend’ Madera County sheriff’s deputies recovered the bodies of a man and a woman in the water near ...
2 days ago · From a physical standpoint, death is when the body's vital functions stop, including breathing (respiration), heartbeat, and brain activity. Sometimes, the dying process happens gradually and sometimes it happens very quickly. After death, the body starts to undergo changes as its temperature drops.
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Sep 17, 2019 · Dead bodies move on their own after death — likely due to processes of decomposition, researchers suspect, pointing to implications for forensic science.
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