Dartmouth Medical School. Anatomy
Biography
The DMS Department of Anatomy is primarily a teaching department, though several of its members conduct research in other fields. The Department is responsible for teaching three courses in the required DMS Year 1 curriculum, and periodically offers electives and special courses for other groups of students within the Dartmouth community. The Anatomical Gifts Program, administered by the Department, allows New Hampshire and Vermont residents the opportunity to donate their bodies for research and teaching.
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Dartmouth Medical School, Anatomy Department, records
The collection contains correspondence, signed body disposal certificates, burial permits, notebooks, and printed material related to the history of the Anatomical Gift Program at the Dartmouth Medical School. Burial permits date back to 1934 and correspondence to 1943. Correspondence includes requests and inquiries into the protocols of body donation for teaching purposes. Of note are the many unsolicited letters from people willing to sell their bodies to the medical school.