Medical students and doctors are becoming deadly serious about a lack of human corpses on which to carry out medical research.

Scottish medical colleges are regularly falling short of the 300 cadavers needed for training purposes, and have resorted to importing some body parts from America. In 2008 only 163 people donated their bodies to medical research in the Scotland.

The Scotsman reported surgeons who specialise in operating on arthritic joints are in particular need of bodies to practise on, and an increase in bodies

Edinburgh University’s procurement procedures have moved on considerably from the nineteenth century, when a professor at Edinburgh’s medical college notoriously bought dead bodies from murderers Burke and Hare. Donation of one’s body to medical science is now a strictly voluntary affair.

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