Maura Judkis, The Washington Post; A museum’s historic human remains are now the center of an ethics clash
"The Mütter is a place for people who don’t fit in. And now, Eisenstein fears he can’t fit in here, either.
“People who have always felt othered” — for their physical abilities, their sexuality, their neurodivergence, their interest in death — “find their home in the museum,” says Polasky, the petitioner, who is now a curator for the British Online Archives.
Whether they can continue to do so depends on the answer to one question: What happens when the ethics of the 19th century meet those of the 21st?"
