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I would hazard a guess that the remains of a mummy still present interesting research opportunities, whereas the skin here is just skin, and there’s no real val
by 542458 3y ago
I would hazard a guess that the remains of a mummy still present interesting research opportunities, whereas the skin here is just skin, and there’s no real value in keeping it around other than the sensational. IIRC last time I was at the Museum of History in Ottawa they had noted that many of the indigenous artifacts on display are replicas - for many artifacts where they felt everything that they could learn had been learned, they have returned the originals to the people they were taken from. I feel this is a similar story.
- xattt 3y agoA physician binding a book in the skin of his patient seems like a sick psychopathic power move. This is similar to the recent case of a surgeon who branded a transplanted liver with his initials. The removal of the skin binding is symbolic, and is a small initiative in the gestalt of righting historical wrongs and creating a just society.
- torstenvl 3y agoThere is no such thing as a just society that does actions of this type. Destroying evidence of the past to fit your worldview is fundamentally unjust.
- plugin-baby 3y ago> This is similar to the recent case of a surgeon who branded a transplanted liver with his initials. It’s not that similar, is it? Most people would object to the doctor flaying grandma, but there are interviews with that surgeon’s former transplant patients who don’t seem too bothered they may have been branded.
- sam_lowry_ 3y ago> surgeon who branded a transplanted liver with his initials If anything, I'd be happy if the surgeon engraved his initials on my liver. This likely means he was proud of his work. OTOH, I've seen people evading any mention of their name in the public releases of software code of horrendous quality by institutions, so I can relate this to my profession. Anonymous work correlates with bad work.
- kome 3y agothen put in a museum, solved.
- ameister14 3y agowho's museum? The British Museum?