{"id":576837,"date":"2026-04-28T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=576837"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:13:58","slug":"identification-of-human-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/identification-of-human-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"Identification of human remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The M\u00fctter Museum in Philadelphia, USA, dedicated to the history of medicine, launched the Postmortem Project in January 2023 with the aim of determining how best to exhibit human remains from its collection\u2014such as skulls, conjoined twins, and an enlarged heart\u2014which are often acquired without consent and displayed without identifying the patients. As part of its reassessment, the museum removed 400 videos from its YouTube channel and took down a digital exhibit from its website. Two years later, the institution announced that human remains on display must now be presented with their history and provenance, rather than anonymously. The Postmortem Project established conditions under which images and videos of human remains from the collection may be used for scientific, educational, or exhibition purposes. Under these new guidelines, the YouTube channel will return. The changes have already begun: a giant intestine from a man previously identified only by the initials J.W. is now accompanied by information about the life of the donor, Joseph Williams. Founded in 1863 from the personal collection of surgeon Thomas M\u00fctter (1811\u20131859), the museum holds 35,000 pieces, including medical instruments, and receives 130,000 visitors a year (AFP and M\u00fctter Museum, August 28).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US museums define rules on displaying human remains","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[230],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-576837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-ethics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576838,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576837\/revisions\/576838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576837"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=576837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}