Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880a-1930

by John Harley Warner and James M. Edmonson

Book Overview

"Cadavers, camera, action " (The New York Times Book Review). From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients. Featuring 138 of these historic photographs and illuminating essays by two experts on the subject, Dissection reveals a startling piece of American history. Sherwin Nuland,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0922233349
• ISBN13: 9780922233342
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Blast Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 10.6"