James Tobin
black and white photo from the 1800s of medical students examining a skeleton
Medicine at Michigan
Such horrible business
Men constructing a church in Cambridge Junction, Michigan found an unholy mess — smears of blood, tufts of hair, signs of heavy objects being dragged across the floor. In the graveyard in back, they found heaps of fresh earth next to empty graves. This is the story of the struggle to get bodies in the early days of anatomy classes.
Medicine at Michigan
The First University Hospital
150 years ago, U-M made history when it converted a professor’s house
Medicine at Michigan
X-Ray Vision
An early adopter of radiology at U-M
Medicine at Michigan
The Great Rush
A university rivalry and the roots of college football