Illustration of just one of almost a thousand skulls Morton and colleagues collected. Crania Americana by Samuel Morton, CC BY When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection ...
Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In the 19th century, medical schools were desperate for corpses from which their students could learn. Grave robbers would sell bodies; sometimes, ...
ANAC copy 39088008652638 has bookplate: Anonymous Gift. ANTHMAI copy 39088008654014 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book program. Adopted by Rebecca and Eric Gordon on September 26, 2017.
In a 19th century image of Indian medical students, the unwitting consequences of colonial education
The engraving in my study is called Hindoo Students. Four young men sit and stand in a sparse interior, books piled casually around them, papers unfolded, conversation suspended mid-thought. They are ...
When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. “Legend has it,” she said, “John James Audubon really collected ...
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