>Anyone who doubts that African Americans formed the pool of bodies (dead or >alive) for the development of early American medicine should examine the >following book. > >Title: Bones in the Basement >Subtitle: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training >Edited by: Robert L. Blakely and Judith M. Harrington >Contributors: A team of archaeologists, historians, experimental anatomists >and ethnographers. >Publisher: Smithsonian >Pub Info: December, 1997; 464 pages; 29 black and white illustrations; Cost >$45 >Publishers Description: In 1989, a cache of some 9800 dissected and amputated >human bones, more than75% African America, was found in the earthern basement >floor of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. The book argues that the >procurement of cadavers by American medical schools was part of a racist >system that viewed African Americas as expendable not only in life but also >after death. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- African Ancestored Genealogy Discussion >- To unsubscribe, email: Majordomo@MsState.Edu >- In body of message: unsubscribe afrigeneas >- >- Afrigeneas archives: http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >