Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 by John Harley Warner, James M. Edmonson

Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930

John Harley Warner, James M. Edmonson

208 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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"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 fi...

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