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Additional authors

1. Blakely, Robert L.
2. Harrington, Judith M.
3. Barnes, Mark R.

Description

1. xix, 380 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Paleopathology > Georgia
2. African Americans > Georgia > History > 19th century
3. Medical College of Georgia (1833-1873)
4. Body snatching > Georgia
5. Human dissection > Georgia > History > 19th century

Contents

1. A clandestine past : discovery at the Medical College of Georgia and theoretical foundations / Robert L. Blakely -- Architectural, archaelogical, and historical investigation of the old Medical College of Georgia building / Mark R. Barnes -- Bottles in the basement : artifactual evidence of late nineteenth-century health care from the Medical College of Georgia / Neil A. Duncan -- Subsistence and science : faunal analysis of the Medical College of Georgia site / Kenneth J. Terrell and Shannon C. McFarlin -- The cutting edge : experimental anatomy and the reconstruction of nineteenth-century dissection techniques / Shannon C. McFarlin and Lawrence E. Wineski -- Grave consequences : the opportunistic procurement of cadavers at the Medical College of Georgia / Robert L. Blakely and Judith M. Harrington -- Race and the politics of medicine in nieteenth-century Georgia / Harold Jackson -- Grandison Harris : the Medical College of Georgia's resurrection man / Tanya Telfair Sharpe -- Diet in nineteenth-century Augusta : a trace element analysis of the Medical College of Georgia cadaver sample / Paul C. Dillingham -- Death and disease : the paleopathology of the Medical College of Georgia cadaver sample / Judith M. Harrington -- A rip into the flesh, a tear into the soul : an ethnography of dissection in Georgia / Maureen McCarthy Capozzoli -- Corpses as commodities : the ethnography of covert medical practices in Georgia, circa 1835-1997 / Mieke M.F. Curtis-Richardson.

Call number

1. JFE 99-13023

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Bones in the basement : postmortem racism in nineteenth-century medical training / edited by Robert L. Blakely and Judith M. Harrington ; with contributions by Mark R. Barnes ... [et al.].

Imprint

1. Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1997.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Blakely, Robert L.
2. Harrington, Judith M.
3. Barnes, Mark R.

LCCN

1. 96053982

ISBN

1. 1560987502 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 99-13023