Susan Lawrence
Historian and professor specializing in the history of cadavers and medical practices, co-author of a forthcoming book on the topic and head of the history department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 18min
22. Cadavers - Part 1
Kaylin Goodwin, VP of marketing at ScienceCare, explains how a for-profit body broker recruits donors and runs operations. Susan Lawrence, historian and professor, traces cadaver use from public dissections to modern donation laws. They discuss grave robbing turned industry, how bodies are sold and used, and the growth of wet labs and for-profit models.
