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Era of the Body Snatchers
In New York in the early 1900s, race and poverty intersected to help determine whose cadavers ended up on med students’ dissecting tables
Adam Netzer Zimmer is a biocultural anthropologist, educator and science advocate pursuing a PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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