At the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, modern medical ethics are colliding with 19th-century body parts.
Human remains are at the forefront of these conversations, specifically in that city,” in part because it’s the birthplace of American medicine, as the location of the country’s first medical school and one of its earliest hospitals.
“We have no plans to take anything down,” Quinn says. “In fact, what we’re looking to do is to engage the public coming in into some of these more difficult conversations about the collection.”people of color, people with disabilities and museum members. They also hope to institute a QR-code system that would allow visitors to give feedback in real time about whether they believe exhibitions are respectful and whether remains should be displayed.
That’s not true, says maternal-fetal medicine specialist George Davis, a fellow of the College of Physicians who arranged for the postmortem donation of many of the infants. Davis noted that all donations he had facilitated were deeded to the college as “unrestricted gifts,” with the parents’ knowledge they would be displayed.
One of those questions is about perception. She has been paying attention to negative reviews of the museum from people offended by the remains, but is wary of positive reviews from those who see it as “more of a dare to come in, and it’s more about the oddities,” Quinn says. “Is that what we want to continue to be known for?”goths — to know they are welcome to visit. “It’s just very silly to think that I would be targeting any specific community,” she says.
And watching an afternoon’s worth of visitors — which, yes, included a few people dressed a bit gothy, but also medical professionals in scrubs — it was clear that most people circling around the tubercular abscesses or the plaster casts of famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng were not there for a sideshow.
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