Mutter Museum Pictures
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Skull Artist Creates Skull Out of Human Brain Slices
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Errol Morris’ First Person – The Complete Series $39.98 Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 07/26/2005 Run time: 491 minutes Rating: Nr… |
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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… |
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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body $7.00 Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.html Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it—a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer’s Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middl… |
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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… |