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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
Wed May 29, 2019, 04:23 AM May 2019

St. Joseph's Psychiatric Museum Lets Visitors Pretend To Be Detectives Like On TV

Skulls and bones have a lot to say.

Among the most basic pieces of information they hold are the gender, age and sometimes cause of death of their former user.

"It's all recorded on the bones. All we have to do is teach people how to interpret those markers left on bone," says Ashley Burns-Meerschaert, who is headed to the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri to teach forensics classes.

Burns-Meerschaert is director of education at SKELETONS: Museum of Osteology, and has been teaching groups of curious people how to interpret those markers at the museum’s locations in Oklahoma City and Orlando.

https://www.kcur.org/post/st-josephs-psychiatric-museum-lets-visitors-pretend-be-detectives-tv

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St. Joseph's Psychiatric Museum Lets Visitors Pretend To Be Detectives Like On TV (Original Post) Sherman A1 May 2019 OP
We still have a long way to go NJCher May 2019 #1
This activity, while educational, seems pretty far removed from the mission of a Psychiatric Museum. Nitram May 2019 #2

NJCher

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1. We still have a long way to go
Wed May 29, 2019, 05:03 AM
May 2019

In our treatment of the mentally ill. Those with mental illness do not fare well in prison. We need a more humane way of dealing with situations where a crime is caused by a person with such an illness.

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