Standard Grant: The Role of Skeletons in the Development of Anatomical Knowledge

该项目将研究骨骼作为科学家和艺术家深入研究的对象时解剖学知识的开端，以记录现代解剖学和生理学的思想是如何产生的。该项目将追踪社会、政治和宗教对骨骼的态度如何定义骨骼的意义，以便为当前关于人类遗骸展览和遣返的辩论做出贡献。这个项目将考察人类骨骼和骨骼的制作、展示、营销、展示和收集。本项目将研究来自科学和大众书面资料以及考古证据的证据，为科学和医学史、艺术史、考古学和历史人类学的讨论做出贡献。该项目的研究成果将以书籍、早期现代解剖学和收藏开放数据库和人类遗骸及其沉积会议的形式进行传播。这项工作将扩大我们对早期现代生命科学实践的范围及其与宗教和流行文化的密切联系的理解。此外，它将丰富早期现代科学史学，并扩大其资源基础，包括物质文物。

This project will study the beginning of anatomical knowledge when skeletons were objects of intensive study by scientists and artists, in order to document how modern ideas of anatomy and physiology emerged. The project will trace how the skeleton's meaning has been defined by social, political, and religious attitudes toward the body in order to contribute to current debates about the exhibition and repatriation of human remains.This project will examine the making, representing, marketing, displaying, and collecting of human bones and skeletons. This project will study evidence from scientific and popular written sources as well as archaeological evidence to contribute to discussions in the history of science and medicine, art history, archaeology, and historical anthropology. Findings of this project will be dissemination in a book, open - access databases on early modern anatomy and collecting, and a conference on human remains and their deposition. The work will broaden our understanding of the range of practices of early modern life sciences and their close connections to religion and popular culture. In addition, it will enrich the historiography of early modern science and expand its resource base with the inclusion of material artifacts.