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

这个项目将研究解剖学知识的开始，当时骨骼是科学家和艺术家深入研究的对象，以记录现代解剖学和生理学思想是如何出现的。 该项目将追溯社会、政治和宗教对人体的态度如何定义骨骼的意义，以促进当前关于人类遗骸展览和遣返的辩论。该项目将研究人类骨骼和骨骼的制作、代表、营销、展示和收集。该项目将研究科学和流行的书面来源以及考古证据的证据，以促进科学和医学史，艺术史，考古学和历史人类学的讨论。该项目的研究结果将在一本书中传播，关于早期现代解剖学和收集的开放式数据库，以及关于人类遗骸及其沉积的会议。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的史学，并通过纳入物质文物来扩大其资源基础。

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.