Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs (Hardcover)

The first book on the Mutter 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.

General

Imprint:	Blast Books,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2023
First published:	September 2007
Editors:	Laura Lindgren
Introduction by:	Gretchen Worden
Authors:	College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Dimensions:	285 x 235 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	223
ISBN-13:	978-0-922233-28-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > General Promotions
LSN:	0-922233-28-4
Barcode:	9780922233281

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