Mutter Museum Of Medical History
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Mutter Minute- Phantom limb letter
|
|
Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs $29.45 The first book on the Mütter 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… |
|
|
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities: A Compendium of the Odd, the Bizarre, and the Unexpected $13.09 “Dr. Bondeson dissects a dozen . . . examples of human credulity with the scalpel of a forensic historian, and the result is a colorful collection of true detective stories.” — Richard D. AltickIn this book of amazing oddities, Jan Bondeson explores unexpected, gruesome, and bizarre aspects of the history of medicine. He regales us with stories of spontaneous human combustion; vicious tribes of … |
|
|
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 $29.00 “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 A… |