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The Anatomization and Medicalization of Females Buried at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2025)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Wisconsin approved “An Act to Legalize Dissection” in 1868, which declared unclaimed bodies could be sent to medical societies for anatomical examination. In Milwaukee, cadavers could be buried at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC). Based on osteological assessment, a total of 28/160 (17.5%) females have documented craniotomies and/or postcranial cut marks. To further...