Book ID: CBB000077159

Bones in the basement: Postmodern racism in 19th-century medical training (1997)

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Blakely, Robert L. (Editor)
Harrington, Judith M. (Editor)


Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication date: 1997


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xix + 380 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Blakely, Robert L.: A clandestine past: Discovery at the Medical College of Georgia and theoretical foundations. Barnes, Mark R.: Architectural, archaeological, and historical investigation of the old Medical College of Georgia building. Duncan, Neil A.: Bottles in the basement: Artifactual evidence of late 19th-century health care from the Medical College of Georgia. Terrell, Kenneth J., McFarlin, Shannon C.: Subsistence and science: Faunal analysis of the Medical College of Georgia site. Shannon C. McFarlin, Wineski, Lawrence E.: The cutting edge: Experimental anatomy and the reconstruction of 19th-century dissection techiques. Blakely, Robert L., Harrington, Judith M.: Grave consequences: The opportunistic procurement of cadavers at the Medical College of Georgia. Jackson, Harold: Race and politics of medicine in 19th-century Georgia. Sharpe, Tanya Telfair: Grandison Harris: The Medical College of Georgia's resurrection man. Dillingham, Paul C.: Diet in 19th-century Augusta: A trace element analysis of the Medical College of Georgia cadaver sample. Harrington, Judith M.: Death and disease: The paleopathology of the Medical College of Georgia cadaver sample. Capozzoli, Maureen McCarthy: A rip into the flesh, a tear into the soul: An ethnography of dissection in Georgia. Curtis-Richardson, Mieke M.F.: Corpses as commodities: The ethnography of covert medical practices in Georgia, circa 1835-1997.


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Review Sytsma, S.E. (1999) Review of "Bones in the basement: Postmodern racism in 19th-century medical training". Quarterly Review of Biology (p. 211). unapi

Review Burney, I.A. (1999) Review of "Bones in the basement: Postmodern racism in 19th-century medical training". Social History of Medicine (pp. 332-33). unapi

Review Savitt, T.L. (1999) Review of "Bones in the basement: Postmodern racism in 19th-century medical training". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 379-80). unapi

Review Morman, E.T. (1999) Review of "Bones in the basement: Postmodern racism in 19th-century medical training". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 156-57). unapi

Review Richardson, R. (1998) Review of "Bones in the basement: Postmodern racism in 19th-century medical training". Nature (p. 34). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Agnew, R. A. L.
Bickel, Marcel H.
Bourke, Joanna
Durie, Alastair J.
Edwards, Griffith
Jones, Greta
Journals
Medical History
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Historical Research: The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
History of Psychiatry
Publishers
Boydell Press
Oxford University Press
Schwabe
University of Illinois Press
University of Wisconsin Press
University Press of America
Concepts
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Discipline formation
Bacteriology
Public health
Women in medicine
People
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Buchheim, Rudolf
Douthwaite, Arthur William
Forbes, John
Nightingale, Florence
Pasteur, Louis
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Ireland
China
France
Germany
Japan
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Institut Pasteur, Paris
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus)
Medical College of Georgia
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