Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology Wilson Emily K.
Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology Wilson Emily K. In the wake of World War II, anatomist and anthropologist Mildred Trotter left the Midwest for a…
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Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology Wilson Emily K.
In the wake of World War II, anatomist and anthropologist Mildred Trotter left the Midwest for a temporary post as the forensic anthropology expert for the Army in the Territory of Hawaii. She was the first woman to serve as President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the first woman to be full professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Her formidable task was to identify the remains of war dead in order to return them to their families, in a national effort that continues to this day.Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology is the first, long overdue biography on this woman of immense stature in her field.
Louis.While primarily a biography of Trotter, this book also examines aspects that are so often left out of retrospectives of science and scientific figures. This