May 21, 2004

The Remains of Dismay

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

Cadaver scandals undermine confidence in medical-school programs that ask donors to make a gift of themselves

When her mother died three years ago, after a lengthy battle with kidney and heart problems, Leigh Ajan was comforted knowing that her mother's body, which she had willed to Tulane University, might one day help doctors find a cure for those diseases.

But her mother's body didn't stay at Tulane. It was sent instead to a body-brokerage company later accused of selling

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