Book ID: CBB001033349

The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead (2010)

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Fabian, Ann V. (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xi + 270 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Melissa Rinehart (2012) Review of "The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead". American Indian Quarterly (pp. 114-116). unapi

Review Parezo, Nancy J. (2011) Review of "The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead". American Historical Review (pp. 815-816). unapi

Essay Review Novoa, Adriana (2015) The Intertwined Paths of Science, Slavery, and Race [Review Essay Number 1552123]. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 348-356). unapi

Review Endersby, Jim (2011) Review of "The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 776). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Laura Elizabeth Smith
Driggers, Edward Allen, Jr.
Scattolin, Giuliano
Iorio, Silvia
Thompson, Courtney Elizabeth
Banta, Joshua Alexander
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Medicina Historica
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
University of Minneapolis Press
Aubier
Ashgate
Yale University
Cambridge University
Concepts
Science and race
Craniometry
Physical anthropology
Anthropometry
Phrenology
Medicine
People
Morton, Samuel George
Galton, Francis
Calori, Luigi
Roberts, Charles
White, Walter
Tiedemann, Friedrich
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Padua (Italy)
Romania
Argentina
South America
Institutions
University of Padua
United States. Army
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