![]() Pathology is the study of the biologically unexpected. Anthropologists and anatomists might be able to look at this or that skull or other skeletal piece and say something about how old that person was or divine other clues from the osteological landmarks, but in broad strokes, bones taken out of their fleshy context can seem stripped of their stories. They are potent, if painful, reminders that skeletons tell the stories of our lives more powerfully than anything else.ĭespite our intimacy with our own bones-there’s a skeleton inside you right now-it’s all too easy to look at bones as objects. Sometimes the elements that are supposed to be our internal supports become a kind of prison for the rest of our tissues, bending our bodies to the new course they’ve set. The way our bones grow and maintain themselves has provided us with a built‑in repair system.īut sometimes bones don’t behave as they ought to. When you break a bone, your body immediately begins a repair process to bring those two pieces back into accord. When you cut your finger on a piece of paper, you expect your platelets to plug up the exposed blood vessels and that your skin will eventually knit itself back together. Bone responds to the world just as other parts of our bodies do. ![]()
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