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Medical museum in Philadelphia overhauls policies on human remains to meet modern ethical standards
PHILADELPHIA — A medical museum in Philadelphia has redrawn its policies on the collection and display of human remains, ...
Part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Mütter Museum says it investigated the ethics of displaying donated ...
The new policy comes after two years of controversy involving public backlash, staff departures and high-level leadership changes.
The Mutter Museum, a 19th-century repository of medical oddments and arcana at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, attracts as many as 160,000 visitors a year. Among the anatomical and patho… ...
After a few contentious years, the museum is adopting a more holistic approach instead of focusing only on specimens and the medical condition they represent.
The curator at the Mutter Museum in Center City said they got a package containing two preserved fetuses and there was a letter saying it came from a retired physician, but there was nothing to ...
The Mutter (the “u” has an umlaut; you say it, “Myoo-ter”) displays medical anomalies and artifacts from the collection of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Medical oddities abound at one of Philadelphia's treasures: the Mutter Museum on 22nd Street in Center City. Dr. Robert Hicks of the College of Physicians--the organization that r ...
Mira Irons, president and CEO of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which owns the Mütter Museum, at 19 S. 22nd St., resigned Wednesday to take a new job.
The Mutter Museum was established in 1849 by Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter as a teaching tool for students of medicine before the modern marvels of X-rays and antibiotics. Worden arrived as a curatorial ...
KYW's John Ostapkovich reports the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is world renowned for its collection of skulls and body parts preserved in jars, both normal an ...
MISCHIEF at the Mutter This will be the second year the Mutter Museum will host a night full of mischief in celebration of Halloween. Tickets to the event include an open bar with beer, wine ...
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