Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum
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The Importance of Contextualization in Medical Records
The museum has all these wax models of what Cifolas looks like. It would, in most cases, get treated before you would get to the stage of the scars. And physicians don't know how to recognize it. So they either don't diagnose it or misdiagnose it. I think that the key here is that all these specimens have to be contextualized.
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