A Tulsa, Okla. woman charged with mutilating a corpse at a funeral home was convicted and sentenced on a number of related charges on Thursday including burglary, disturbing a funeral and unlawful ...

The son of an elderly Bronx woman whose corpse was mistakenly shipped to a medical school for dissection, is urging Gov. Cuomo to sign a bill that would tighten the procedure for handing over ...

Geza Hoffman, a Jewish student of the University of Fuenfkirchen, against whom it was alleged by several of his fellow-students that he had insulted a corpse during a dissection at the University by ...

Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case. You vote on your ...

The Vilna Chief Rabbinate has issued a statement dissociating itself from the resolution adopted at the joint conference of Jewish doctors and rabbis authorizing the chief dictor of the Vilna Jewish ...

UNDATED (AP) -- Tulsa police have arrested a woman who they say slashed a woman's corpse at a funeral home.The 26-year-old Shaynna Sims remained jailed Monday and faces a misdemeanor complaint of ...

Illustration of a dissection in Fasciculus Medicinae (first published 1491, edition from 1495) (courtesy the New York Academy of Medicine) In a series for the first day of each month, Hyperallergic is ...