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 popular
hobby of collecting skulls and also shown their use in racial and
psychological profiling research. This sumptuously illustrated book
with previously unpublished photographs is an extraordinary work of
medical, historical and cultural research. It is a timeless visual
essay that will surely become a standard resource for collectors,
curators, artists, and scholars.
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