Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Anatomical Dissection at a Nineteenth-Century Army Hospital in San Francisco

“Represents an impressive use of modern forensic and bioarchaeological methods to reveal a great deal of important information about American history during the post‒Civil War period, particularly as it relates to the history of medicine. Nuanced, sensitive, and reflective.”—Debra Martin, coeditor of Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands

“A fascinating and exhaustive analysis of anatomized remains and their role in nineteenth-century medical practice. A must-read for anyone interested in histories of medicine and regimes of knowledge, structural inequality, and critical reflections on the future of the discipline.”—Meredith Reifschneider, San Francisco State University

“Provides a wide-ranging overview of this discovery of dissected human skeletal remains. In addition to expert analyses of the human remains and associated artifacts, historical sleuthing reveals details about the Army surgeon whose dissections and autopsies most likely produced the medical waste pit.”—Thomas A. Crist, Utica University