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Title Exhibiting human remains : a provocative seminar / Megan Hicks, editor
Published Sydney : Health & Medicine Museums, 2001

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 MELB  301.075 Hic/Ehr  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 45 leaves ; 30 cm
Contents Introductory remarks -- Welcome -- Fatality, cruelty, photography - the work witnessing must do on melancholy -- Exhibiting human remains: what are the ethical issues? -- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestral remains - why should they have them back when we want to research and exhibit? -- A personal view exposed -- If i only had a a brain -- Exhibiting ethically with human rmains at the new Melbourne Museum -- In Flanders Fields -- Titillating, tempting and tracking an audience
Notes "Collected papers from 'Exhibiting human remains', a seminar presented by Health and Medicine Museums (a Special Interest Group of Museums Australia Inc.) held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 12 May 2000"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Human remains (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
Dead -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Australia.
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Australia.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Anthropological museums and collections -- Australia.
Dead -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Hicks, Megan.
Health & Medicine Museums
ISBN 0957925506