This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research.
“Particularly after he served his country.”Supplying unclaimed bodies for medical research is widely considered unethical, and most major medical schools — and a few states — have halted the practice.
NBC News spent months documenting the use of unclaimed bodies in medical research, submitting public records requests to dozens of state agencies, county coroners and medical schools.
That included Pennsylvania, where an official said the body-donation program could not share how the 58 unclaimed bodies were used.
He wants to see more regulation of the body donation industry and has written guidelines that call for donation programs to stop using unclaimed bodies.
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