Susan C Lawrence
Biographic Data
| ID | 4720647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan C Lawrence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawrence |
| SIGNATURE | LAWRENCE S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0229-9291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence
This article analyses the complex narrative of Harriet Cole, a 36-year-old African-American woman whose body was delivered to the anatomy department of Hahnemann Medical School in 1888. The anatomist Rufus B Weaver used her preserved remains to create a singular anatomical specimen, an intact extraction of the 'cerebro-spinal nervous system'. Initially anonymised, deracialised and unsexed, the central nervous system specimen endured for decades b…
Rest in Pieces
By the mid-1950s, formal body donation programs began to supplant the decades-long reliance on the anatomy acts that made the bodies of the indigent and unclaimed available for medical education and research. By the mid-1980s, nearly all American medical schools relied on voluntary anatomical gifts of dead bodies. Throughout the nineteenth century, a handful of Americans requested through wills, letters, and suicide notes that their corpses be gi…
Let's Eat, Let's Worry
Journal Article Let's Eat, Let's Worry Get access Susan C. Lawrence Susan C. Lawrence 1The Ohio State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 2014, Pages 491–493, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jru012 Published: 26 March 2014
Access Anxiety
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) establishes new standards for the protection of private health information in the United States. The Privacy Rule, one of the specific regulatory provisions of the act, went into effect 14 April 2003 for covered health care providers, institutions, and businesses. The Privacy Rule directly affected medical archivists and their collections. It has significant implications for …
Medical Education in the Age of Improvement
Medicine in Great Britain from the Restoration to the Nineteenth Century, 1660-1800
His and hers
His and hers
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence
This article analyses the complex narrative of Harriet Cole, a 36-year-old African-American woman whose body was delivered to the anatomy department of Hahnemann Medical School in 1888. The anatomist Rufus B Weaver used her preserved remains to create a singular anatomical specimen, an intact extraction of the 'cerebro-spinal nervous system'. Initially anonymised, deracialised and unsexed, the central nervous system specimen endured for decades b…
His and hers
Medicine in Great Britain from the Restoration to the Nineteenth Century, 1660-1800
Medical Education in the Age of Improvement
Access Anxiety
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) establishes new standards for the protection of private health information in the United States. The Privacy Rule, one of the specific regulatory provisions of the act, went into effect 14 April 2003 for covered health care providers, institutions, and businesses. The Privacy Rule directly affected medical archivists and their collections. It has significant implications for …
Let's Eat, Let's Worry
Journal Article Let's Eat, Let's Worry Get access Susan C. Lawrence Susan C. Lawrence 1The Ohio State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 2014, Pages 491–493, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jru012 Published: 26 March 2014
Rest in Pieces
By the mid-1950s, formal body donation programs began to supplant the decades-long reliance on the anatomy acts that made the bodies of the indigent and unclaimed available for medical education and research. By the mid-1980s, nearly all American medical schools relied on voluntary anatomical gifts of dead bodies. Throughout the nineteenth century, a handful of Americans requested through wills, letters, and suicide notes that their corpses be gi…
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence
This article analyses the complex narrative of Harriet Cole, a 36-year-old African-American woman whose body was delivered to the anatomy department of Hahnemann Medical School in 1888. The anatomist Rufus B Weaver used her preserved remains to create a singular anatomical specimen, an intact extraction of the 'cerebro-spinal nervous system'. Initially anonymised, deracialised and unsexed, the central nervous system specimen endured for decades b…
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