Today, Dr. Madeleine Mant (University of Toronto, Mississauga) talks about her work looking at historical health-related events by accessing both human skeletal remains and archival documents.

Maddy helps us answer the questions: What do the words ‘marginalization’ and ‘risk’ mean in different historical, bioarchaeological and academic contexts? What was the experience of trauma and disease in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London? How can anthropologists combine approaches from archaeology, history, chemistry and archival studies to uncover the stories of previously underrepresented individuals? What are some innovative ways we can teach students and interested audiences about health in historical individuals?

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