Restless Bones: How Our Treatment of Human Skeletons Reveals the Politics of the Body
by Amir Zadnemat In almost every medical school in the world, there is a cupboard—or a quiet back room—full of bones. The skulls are numbered, the femurs stacked like firewood, the ribs threaded onto metal wire. Officially, they are “teaching aids”. Unofficially, they are the remains of actual lives, reduced to objects that can be…
