Today, Adam Netzer Zimmer (UMass Amherst) talks about his current PhD research and collective body of work in biocultural anthropology and medical history.

Adam is now based in Reykjavík investigating the process of cadaver recruitment for dissections in the early years of modern medical teaching and research. How do policies, social factors and medical histories surrounding early anatomical teaching compare between Iceland and the United States?

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