Arthur Rathburn

News
More Life-Saving Research, Fewer Chainsaw Dissections: The Body-Donation Industry Fights to Clean Up
Thousands of people donate their bodies every year to be used for research and medical education in the US. But the procurement of non-transplant human tissue is largely unregulated, and years of grisly scandals have led to demands for more oversight.
Ky Henderson and Iris Xu
5.31.16
Post Mortem
The Bizarre Crimes of Detroit's Underground Cadaver Dealer
Arthur Rathburn is accused of hacking up bodies with chainsaws and selling diseased body parts to medical conferences—just one example of the shady ongoings in the cadaver dealing industry.
Simon Davis
2.12.16