This paper addresses the issue concerning the legacy of human remains as it affects historical collections and museums of pathology, mentioning the legal approach to the dead. The changes ethical norms have undergone in recent decades in storing and exhibiting human remains, revealing a new moral attitude towards the manipulation of them, will be analysed. The Gordon Museum of Pathology at King’s College London, one of the largest pathology Museums in the world, will be presented as a case study to underline the educational value of antique and modern scientific collections. A series of pathological paintings and the wax models of the first British anatomical ceroplastic artist who worked in the nineteenth century will be discussed in order to remind us of the importance of the history of medical knowledge that acquires particular significance nowadays to document ancient, new and emerging diseases.
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