“It was sort of thought that, ‘Oh well, the education of doctors outweighs any ethical issues’. We would of course not accept that today,' Anne-Maree Kelly said about purchasing human skeletons. | TimnaJacks
In Jonathan Coman’s childhood home, a box of human bones was kept under the staircase.
The medical elite vaguely understood that India was the booming bone trade’s key supplier, but their curiosity stopped there. That most of these skeletons were illegally dug out of graves or fished out of the Ganges without the permission of the deceased remained a well-kept secret. Anne-Maree Kelly, a senior emergency physician and academic at Western Health in Melbourne who is working with Coman on the research, bought half a skeleton for $30 when she was a student at Melbourne University in the 1980s.The bones were advertised on a notice board in the university library, where she bought them from another student and lugged them on the train home to Blackburn.“It was sort of thought that, ‘Oh well, the education of doctors outweighs any ethical issues’.
Paul O’Hanlon, a doctor, took his bones to the local police station in Doncaster, Melbourne, in 2014 and was met with a bewildered look and a Coronial inquest.The AgeMoving forward, Coman says a “bone amnesty” similar to the one existing for firearms should be introduced to protect bone owners.
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