The Bioarchaeology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United States
Encountering evidence of postmortem examinations - dissection or autopsy- in historic skeletal collections is relatively rare, but recently there has been an increase in the number of reported instances. The Bioarchaeology of Dissection and
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Kenneth C. Nystrom Editor
The Bioarchaeology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United States
Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
Series Editor Debra L. Martin Professor of Anthropology University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11976
Kenneth C. Nystrom Editor
The Bioarchaeology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United States
Editor Kenneth C. Nystrom Department of Anthropology State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-26834-7 ISBN 978-3-319-26836-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26836-1
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Foreword
This volume is extraordinary in that the chapters are focused on historical moments when medical schools and the medical profession began obtaining and using cadavers for dissection and conducting autopsies in the United States in the 1800s. What makes this body of work unique is that the interpretations and understandings are gained through the lens of modern bioarchaeological (and forensic) data derived from the analysis of skeletonized remains from those who were autopsied or dissected in these early years. From historical documents, we know when various policies, rules, and regulations began being established in different states for their medical schools and facilities, but only the analysis of the skeletal remains provides what historical documents never can and that is the lived experiences and circumstances of those whose bodies ended up being used as teaching materials (dissection) and resources to learn about disease processes (autopsy). If the reader only reads the introductory and concluding chapters by Nystrom, they would have a truly go
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