The Murderous Legacy of the Skeleton Business | ft. Sabrina Agarwal PhD
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- Опубліковано 27 бер 2024
- At its height, the bone factories in Calcutta exported more than 60,000 anatomical skeletons a year to medical programs all over the world. Most of the bones had been looted from graves and burning ghats. Still, anatomy processors made millions of dollars stealing and then exporting those bodies abroad. Today, those hundreds of tons of human remains are in closets and specimine collections all around American and Europe...and now we need to decide what to do with them.
Today my guest is Sabrina Agarwal a professor and the chair of the department of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley who specializes in bioarchaeology. She just wrote an article in Nature digging into the ethical dilemma we all face when thinking about how to deal with the legacy of the skeleton trade.
"The bioethics of skeletal anatomy collections from India" in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
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I had no intention of navigating this tremendously troubling and serious topic today, but the algorithms sent it my way and I couldn't resist hitting the play button. I didn't get other things done. This interview was yet another example of some of the high-quality programming Scott Carney can create, and it was well worth the listen. Thank you for informing me better even while unsettling me a bit.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
Thanks Scott, this is an issue that I didn't know I didn't care about. I love all the work you do, but I dont understand what or who is being g harmed. If someone steals my bones after I die and learn something new, and this new information is helpful to humanity as a whole, then please take my bones.
Scott Carney ThanksMuch for posting !
thanks again for watching.
Very interesting, and Sabrina Agarwal was a great guest (perhaps you could put her name in the title? I didn't realise this was an interview until I started watching).
I'm curious: what you do think about her claim that Aghori practices are mainly driven by the tourist industry?
It's a good question about Aghoris. I have only run into them in Pushkar, Rishikesh and Varanasii which are both holy cities and tourist sites. I think that tourism does probably drive some aghori practice, but the practice is so extreme, that I don't it's sufficient to create the population.
Very interesting, and kind of shocking.
Aghori?
Never heard of them? Oh man...you're in for a treat.
what about Neanderthal skeletons ... they had their own culture too, and i bet they are worth allot more, plus they're not human so don't have to worry about the backlash.
That's an interesting question. I don't know of any neanderthal rights groups out there.