US EditionUnnamed skeletons? US museum at center of ethical debate
The Mutter Museum will accept only donations from living donors or descendants and launched a two-year public engagement to address ethical concerns over human remains.
- The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia was at the center of an ethical debate over displaying human remains anonymously.
- After two years of controversy, the museum announced a new policy to contextualize and de-anonymize its collection by identifying donors.
- The museum will only accept donations from living donors or their descendants to help identify them.
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The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, United States, a place dedicated to the history of medicine, is in the midst of heated debates about the conditions for the preservation and exhibition of the human remains of its collection.
The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia exposes thousands of medical and other strange anomalies. But the management has been confronted with the ethical question of the exhibition of its collection in recent years.
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Unnamed skeletons? US museum at center of ethical debate
For years, a man's giant intestine was anonymously on display at a US medical museum in Philadelphia, identified only by his initials JW.
More than just a giant colon in a jar: America’s oddest medical museum tries to get ethical about its dead
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 28 — For years, a man’s giant intestine was anonymously on display at a US medical museum in Philadelphia, identified only by his initials JW. Today, the donor display for Joseph Williams depicts not only his anatomical record, but his powerful life story. After two years of controversy over how to ethically exhibit human remains, the Mutter Museum announced last week it has changed its policy to “contextualise” and de-anonymis…
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