Bones in the basement
Human dissection
Geschichte (1800-1900)
Dissection
Rassismus
Medical colleges
Physical anthropology
Medizin
Anatomie
History, 19th Century
Negers
Blacks
African Americans
History
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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