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They Are People Too: The Ethics of Curation and Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research
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- They Are People Too: The Ethics of Curation and Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research
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This paper is an introduction and review for the special issue of AJBA on the Curation and Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research, which emerged from an organized session at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists in 2022. The authors of this special issue describe the ethical challenges surrounding the collection, curation, and use of human skeletal remains in biological anthropology, focusing particularly on the historical exploitation of marginalized communi...
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- Scholarly text / Journal article
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- Article
- Date created
- 2025-02
- Creator
- Robbins Schug, Gwen / Halcrow, Siân E / de la Cova, Carlina
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/10523/45032
- Related subjects
- Anthropology - education / Anthropology - ethics / Body Remains / anatomy / bioarchaeology / curation / ethics / paleopathology
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