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Calcutta bone trade

The Calcutta bone trade was a real, long-running commercial industry (dating back to British colonial times and peaking in the 1960s–early 1980s) that exported tens of thousands of processed human skeletons annually—often cited around 60,000 per year at its height—for medical schools, hospitals, and research worldwide. Bodies were sourced primarily from unclaimed dead in hospitals, […]