COPENHAGEN, March 18 — Countless shelves line the walls of a basement at Denmark’s University of Odense, holding what is thought to be the world’s largest collection of...
COPENHAGEN, March 18 — Countless shelves line the walls of a basement at Denmark’s University of Odense, holding what is thought to be the world’s largest collection of brains.
Begun in 1945, it was a “kind of experimental research,” Jesper Vaczy Kragh, an expert in the history of psychiatry, explained to AFP. Denmark considered “mentally ill” people, as they were called at the time, “a burden to society if we let them have children, if we let them loose... they will cause all kinds of trouble,” Vaczy Kragh said.
The evolution of post-mortem procedures and growing awareness of patients’ rights heralded the end of new additions to the collection in 1982.Denmark’s state ethics council ultimately ruled it should be preserved and used for scientific research.The collection, long housed in Aarhus in western Denmark, was moved to Odense in 2018.
Some of the brains belonged to people who suffered from both mental health issues and brain illnesses.
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