The special body parts issue (vol. 18, no. 1) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now online. It’s got lots about feet and heads and belly navels—and much more. The pleasing-paper version was mailed to subscribers today. Click on the magazine cover (below) to download a free PDF, or buy a high-quality […]
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Coroners & Body Part Sales: Perspective
Some historical perspective for the case of the New Orleans coroner whose election opponent is accusing him of selling body parts: “Whose body is it anyway?: trading the dead poor, coroner’s disputes, and the business of anatomy at Oxford University, 1885-1929,” Elizabeth T. Hurren, Bull Hist Med, Winter 2008;82(4):775-818. The author, at Wellcome Trust Centre […]
Coroner as Frankenstein in NO
Forensic science, in a manner of speaking, is all the rage in In New Orleans. One candidate for coroner — Dwight McKenna — is running this TV ad. It accuses the other candidate, Frank Minyard, the incumbent, of being a Dr. Frankenstein who sells body parts. (Thanks to Rose Fox and TPM for bringing this […]