Where do medical school bones come from? I went undercover (not very well) in India to see if I could buy a real-death skeleton.
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Kolkata in India used to be centre of the worldwide trade in human skeletons and bones. In 1985 India outlawed the export of human specimens, but as I found out on a visit in 2019, the trade continues on a large scale. Here's my Sherlock Bones impersonation.
References:
The Red Market by Scott Carney www.scottcarney.com/the-red-m...
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2019/...
www.thenational.ae/world/boom...
Sanker Sen www.indiatoday.in/magazine/ec...
Random scientific study on the truckloads of Indian bones www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Kickstarter video by Scott Carney for a documentary that never happened www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Scandals in other countries
Unlawful theft of human tissue in the US and Ukraine: • Skin and Bone: the Sha...
www.nbcnews.com/id/13192080/ns...
Alder Hey infant organ scandal (Liverpool, UK): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_H...
Chinese organ removal:
www.theguardian.com/world/201...
nypost.com/2019/06/23/the-ugl...
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