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42. The Skeleton Business's Murderous Legacy
42. The Skeleton Business's Murderous Legacy
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58 minutes
Released:
Mar 28, 2024
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At its height, the bone factories in Calcutta exported more than 60,000 anatomical skeletons a year to medical programs all over the world. Most of the bones had been looted from graves and burning ghats. Still, anatomy processors made millions of dollars stealing and then exporting those bodies abroad. Today, those hundreds of tons of human remains are in closets and specimine collections all around American and Europe...and now we need to decide what to do with them.
Today my guest is Sabrina Agarwal a professor and the chair of the department of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley who specializes in bioarchaeology. She just wrote an article in Nature digging into the ethical dilemma we all face when thinking about how to deal with the legacy of the skeleton trade.
"The bioethics of skeletal anatomy collections from India" in Nature
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Today my guest is Sabrina Agarwal a professor and the chair of the department of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley who specializes in bioarchaeology. She just wrote an article in Nature digging into the ethical dilemma we all face when thinking about how to deal with the legacy of the skeleton trade.
"The bioethics of skeletal anatomy collections from India" in Nature
Support this show on Patreon and get exclusive EARLY ACCESS and access to a private discord server:
Read my Substack Newsletter
Scott Carney Investigates Podcast
Books:
The Wedge
What Doesn't Kill Us
The Enlightenment Trap
The Vortex
The Red Market
Social Media:
YouTube
Bluesky
©PokeyBear LLC (2023)
Released:
Mar 28, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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