Cover of Bones in the basement

Bones in the basement

by Robert Blakely

1997 380 pages eng

Dissection was the preferred teaching method in nineteenth-century American medical schools even though, until the final decades of the century, the practice was illegal in most states. In 1989, a cache of some 9800 dissected and amputated human bones--more than 75% of them African American--were fo…

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