This third chapter begins to put back human stories into hidden histories of the dead lost to medical posterity. It unpicks some of the competing influences that shaped how disputes about bodies might originate. Running from the early twentieth century to the present, it concentrates on five core sets of life writing. The first explores how negative public sentiment about the use of bodies and the harvesting of organs could develop in the media, stimulating defensive attitudes in the medical establishment. The second, third and fourth sets of life writing illustrate the complex ethical, moral and personal standpoints of those who benefitted from or conducted anatomical research and teaching. A final set of life writing – the author’s own reflections on visits to modern anatomical spaces and dissections – focusses on the sentimental and experiential aspect of anatomical practices, in effect showing how the three types of body disputes that underpin the agenda for Part II of this book can sometimes (but not always) be generated by complex feelings when involved in medical research cultures rather than an intent to deceive. Here then, we encounter the human flow of medical research and the tides of public opinion of a biomedical age.