Mütter Museum Historic Medical Photographs
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (768 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0922233284 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Great souvenir of an incredible Philadelphia museum" according to Mike in San Diego. Great souvenir of an incredible (but crowded) Philadelphia museum. I bought it on my smart phone from the museum and it was waiting for me when i got home across the country. I feel guilty paying less for it through Amazon than at the museum, but it wouldn't have fit in my luggage.. A visual history of early medical photography jdvb books The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia is a fantastic display of medical history developed in the second half the nineteenth century. If you've toured or are considering touring the museum and are looking for photos of many of the interesting exhibits the book you are looking for is The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This book is exactly what the title pre. Great book Suzanne Jacobs A criticism regarded the small presentation of photography but I sense it would have qualified the image of the medical problem. An interesting book to view and read. This along with "Mu(t)an(t)s" by Armand Marie Leroi makes a great duo. However, it is not for the coffee table as most people may find it disturbing.
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. The first book on the Mütter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. As visual documents of what humans endured in the face of limited medical knowledge, these extraord