Program

Research Programs: Archaeology Projects

Period of Performance

9/1/1993 - 6/30/1996

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$65,000.00 (approved)
$58,745.56 (awarded)


Covert Medical Practices in 19th-Century Georgia

FAIN: RK-20029-93

Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA 30303-3011)
Robert L. Blakely (Project Director: October 1992 to July 1997)

To support analysis and publication of medical artifacts and skeletonized body parts excavated from a 19th-century building of the Georgia Medical College in Augusta. The focus is on medical practices when dissection was illegal.





Associated Products

Blakely, Robert L. and Judith M. Harrington, eds. Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth Century Medical Training (Book)
Title: Blakely, Robert L. and Judith M. Harrington, eds. Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth Century Medical Training
Author: Blakely, Robert L
Year: 1999
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9781560987505
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781560987505