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An archaeological site that tells a story of structural violence in
medical research In 2010, a pit containing over 4,000 human
skeletal elements was discovered at the site of the former Army
hospital at Point San Jose in San Francisco. Local archaeologists
determined that the bones, which were found alongside medical waste
artifacts from the hospital, were remains from anatomical
dissections conducted in the 1870s. As no records of these
dissections exist, this volume turns to historical, archaeological,
and bioarchaeological analysis to understand the function of the
pit and the identities of the people represented in it. In these
essays, contributors show how the remains discovered are postmortem
manifestations of social inequality, evidence that
nineteenth-century surgical and anatomical research benefited from
and perpetuated structural violence against marginalized
individuals.A volume in the series Bioarchaeological
Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global
Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
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