Being There is a collection of photographic portraits of, and
interviews with, NYU medical students who volunteered in the New
York City Medical Examiner's morgue following 9/11, conducted by
Barry Goldstein, and with a foreword by Charles Hirsch M.D., the
Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, who ran the massive
effort to identify remains. Within 24 hours of the attacks, a
complex of tents and refrigerated trucks appeared on 30th St. and
1st Ave, adjacent to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
(OCME). This makeshift compound housed the temporary morgues that
would receive human remains recovered from Ground Zero.
Approximately twenty NYU medical students volunteered to work
alongside the understaffed OCME, sorting, cataloguing, and
identifying human remains. Most of these students had been in
medical school for only a few weeks. In June of 2002, Dr. Goldstein
photographed and interviewed the volunteers, asking them to
describe what they did, what they would remember, how they coped,
and how they were changed by the experience. Barry M. Goldstein is
associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics, and associate
professor of medical humanities at the University of Rochester
Medical Center, and adjunct professor of humanism in medicine at
NYU School of Medicine. He was Artist-in-Residence at the NYU
School of Medicine during the 2001-2002 academic year.
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