1968

Federal Uniform Anatomical Gift Act modernizes the distribution of cadavers for medical use, with each state then passing its own version of the act. Still, “In general, the bodies that are used for anatomical dissection and research without the person or his family’s permission are today’s version of the ‘friendless poor’ – the homeless, and proportionately more blacks than whites are homeless” (Washington, 195). . . . Medical policies include bias in organ recruitment and human leukocyte antigen (HAD) matching requirements, which exclude more black than white organ recipients and thus render transplant kidneys unavailable to blacks” (196).