Quel che resta. Scheletri e altri resti umani come beni culturali , by Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Giorgio Manzi, and Jacopo Moggi Cecchi, eds.
- Autores: Mauro Mandrioli
- Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 38, Nº. 3, 2023, págs. 738-740
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Natural history museums are places of mediation between the narration that every museum itinerary has to build and the structure of the exhibits, in terms of both visual and aesthetic quality and conservation of the exhibited natural “objects.” This mediation may be particularly complex in anatomical museums, where human remains are exhibited leaving them in an unusual intermediate condition between the remains of an individual’s life and their scientific value. Indeed, each human remain represents a sort of archive of biological data that can be recorded, studied and interpreted. Human remains may, for instance, enable us to reconstruct the style and quality of life in the past, as well as paleoepidemiological aspects necessary to understand past epidemics in order to prevent future ones. Due to this dual nature of subject/object, human remains are nowadays at the centre of an active debate involving numerous institutions, including private and university museums.
