Mütter Museum Historic Medical Photographs

Name: Mütter Museum Historic Medical Photographs
Brand: Blast Books
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By College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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The first book on the Mütter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. Here, the focus is on the museum’s archive of rare historic photographs, most of which have never been seen by the public. Featured are poignant, aesthetically accomplished works ranging from Civil War photographs showing injury and recovery, to the ravages of diseases not yet conquered in the 19th century, to pathological anomalies, to psychological disorders. Many were taken by talented photographers between the 1860s and the 1940s as records for physicians to share among colleagues and to track patients’ conditions, and demonstrate various techniques used in medical photography including the daguerreotype, micrography, X ray, and traditional portrait-style photography. As visual documents of what humans endured in the face of limited medical knowledge, these extraordinary and haunting photographs demonstrate how far medicine has advanced.

Product details

Edition:: illustrated
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 224
Publisher:: Blast Books
Publication Date:: 2007-11-28
ISBN / EAN:: 9780922233281
Weight:: 1430 g
Dimensions:: 24/29/2 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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