Dissection
Subtitle: photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine, 1880-1930
By: John Harley Warner, James M. Edmonson.
Contributors: Edmonson, James M.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Blast Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780922233342
Subjects: Human dissection -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works; Human dissection -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works; Dissection -- history -- United States -- Pictorial Works; Education, Medical -- history -- United States -- Pictorial Works; History, 19th Century -- United States -- Pictorial Works; History, 20th Century -- United States -- Pictorial Works; Human Body -- United States -- Pictorial Works; Photography -- history -- United States -- Pictorial Works; Portraits as Topic -- history -- United States -- Pictorial Works
Genres: Pictorial works.; Pictorial Works.
Description: Collects historic photographs, with essays, that document medical education in the U.S. from 1880-1930, with photographs of students posing with cadavers at various schools, including Rush Medical School and the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Witnessing dissection : photography, medicine, and American culture / John Harley Warner; title: Teamwork; title: Epigraphs; title: Circulation; title: Skeleton; title: Dark humor; title: Class portraits; title: The white coat; title: Afterword : curatorial observations on the dissection image / James M. Edmonson.