LoginStiffs, Skulls & Skeletons: Medical Photography and Symbolism
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This intriguing and comprehensive exploration of the skeleton and the dead body includes more than 400 rare photographs. Stanley B. Burns, MD, has studied, collected and written on medical photography for over four decades focusing on unexplored areas. His books have placed him in the forefront of medical photographic history scholarship. This work reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the dead body and body parts. The classic visual iconography of postmortem, dissection, and bone photography is presented and expanded to include early autopsy images and X-ray studies. No prior visual work has presented the once very po
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Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Release date: 28 December 2014
ISBN-10 : 0764347462 | ISBN-13: 9780764347467
Release date: 28 December 2014
ISBN-10 : 0764347462 | ISBN-13: 9780764347467
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