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kworkbos t1_ituo0b7 wrote

I'm pretty sure we all know why

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susinpgh OP t1_itupwf5 wrote

This article is about the appropriation of human remains for display and study in an academic setting. There is a lot of controversy about the practice.

>In early 2019, Janet Monge, then an associate curator at the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, filmed a class called “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology” for the online education platform Coursera. The goal of the course was to demonstrate how scientists can restore what she called “lost personhood” to the unidentified victims of crimes and natural disasters. “They’ve lost individual identity, so our function is actually to restore parts of that identity,” she explained.

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joefred111 t1_itwow3n wrote

We're talking about a young child whose home was literally bombed by a Philly P.D. chopper, which caused a firestorm and destroyed entire city blocks..

This child has living, still-grieving mother, who never gave consent for her bones to be used as a teaching aide in an Ivy League School.

It's despicable.

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Odd-Neighborhood5119 t1_iudtlxp wrote

Wait a minute. This was in the news quite a while and I believe it was resolved

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