DISSECTION
Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930
John H. Warner & James M. Edmonson
hardcover, 2009
50.00
A startling window into the education of American doctors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- on both a visceral level and for its revealing cultural record. Two hundred pages filled with cringe-worthy shots of medical students -- barehanded gentlemen and a few ladies in street clothes showing off their scalpels, saws and textbooks -- while their cadavers, mostly poor and black, are awkwardly posed, and exposed.
Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930
John H. Warner & James M. Edmonson
hardcover, 2009
50.00
A startling window into the education of American doctors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- on both a visceral level and for its revealing cultural record. Two hundred pages filled with cringe-worthy shots of medical students -- barehanded gentlemen and a few ladies in street clothes showing off their scalpels, saws and textbooks -- while their cadavers, mostly poor and black, are awkwardly posed, and exposed.
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