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Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts
(www.theguardian.com)
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Half the point of the article is that museums are not very good at keeping (and making publically available) records of their human remians. If even 1% of those 37,000 are full cadavers kept in a way sacreligious to a living culture I'd still call those 370 people a "vast scale". Would you let it slide to learn another country held 370 British corpses as exhibits?