Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Anatomical Dissection at a Nineteenth-Century Army Hospital in San Francisco (eBook)

P. Willey, Peter Gavette, Eric J. Bartelink, Colleen F. Milligan (Herausgeber)

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2023
320 Seiten
University of Florida Press (Verlag)
978-1-68340-348-7 (ISBN)

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An archaeological site that tells a storyof structural violence in medical researchIn 2010, a pit containing over 4,000 human skeletalelements was discovered at the site of the former Army hospital at Point San Jose inSan Francisco. Local archaeologists determined that the bones,which were found alongside medical waste artifacts from the hospital, wereremains from anatomical dissections conducted in the 1870s. As no records ofthese dissections exist, this volume turns to historical, archaeological, andbioarchaeological analysis to understand the function of the pit and theidentities of the people represented in it. In these essays, contributors showhow the remains discovered are postmortem manifestations of social inequality, evidencethat nineteenth-century surgical and anatomical research benefited from andperpetuated structural violence against marginalized individuals.A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past:Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 31 b/w illus., 2 maps, 16 tables, notes, bibliography, index
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Anatomical Study • anatomized remains • Anatomy Laws • Army Medical Museum • army surgeons • bottle-making technologies of the Civil War era • cadavers • Civil War • Civil War civilian medical suppliers • Civil War era pharmaceutical bottles • Civil War military hospital archaeology • Dissection • domesticated animals • Edwin Bentley • excavations • Food waste • Fort Mason • human osteology • Human remains • indian wars • Microscopy • Military infrastructure • Military medicine • military post hospital • military rations • modified skeletal series • museum specimens • Point San Jose • portable X-ray fluorescence • Post-Civil War Period • post-Civil War West • Public Welfare Policy • San Francisco • san francisco bay area • Surgeon General • Surgical Practice • Taphonomic modifications • U.S.A. Hospital Department • Zooarchaeology
• ISBN-10: 1-68340-348-7 / 1683403487
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68340-348-7 / 9781683403487