The reliance on unclaimed cadavers for anatomical teaching by medical schools in Africa

@article{Gangata2010TheRO,
  title={The reliance on unclaimed cadavers for anatomical teaching by medical schools in Africa},
  author={Hope Gangata and Phatheka Ntaba and Princess Akol and Graham Louw},
  journal={Anatomical Sciences Education},
  year={2010},
  volume={3},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:22596215}
}
The results indicate that, in most countries, the cadavers are unclaimed bodies from the hospitals and prisons, and the bodies of dead bandits, which may disproportionally affect people who were homeless and poor, criminals, people with fewer social links, and social outcasts.
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