Research Catalog

Title

Mütter Museum : historic medical photographs / The College of Physicians of Philadelphia ; edited by Laura Lindgren ; introduction by Gretchen Worden ; foreword by Max Aguilera-Hellweg.

Publication

New York : Blast Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Lindgren, Laura.
• Mütter Museum.
• College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Description

223 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

"Beginning in the early to mid-nineteenth century medical photography became an invaluable new form of communication between physicians and their professional colleagues and students to convey facts about patients and disease. An outstanding archive of such medical photography, dating from the 1850s to the 1940s, resides in the collection of the Mutter Museum, one of the last and best-known medical museums from the nineteenth century, with an annual visitorship exceeding sixty thousand." "As do the anatomical and pathological exhibits in the Mutter Museum, the extraordinary photographs from the museum's archives reproduced in this book document unusual, sometimes nearly unimaginable, challenges of disorder, disease, and injury. A great many of these photographs are disquieting, yet they are equally moving in their portrayal of how these people endured their fate, in most cases without the hope of cure or alleviation offered by modern medicine. A few photographs demonstrate the limited relief that medical science at the time was able to offer and thus show how very far medicine has advanced." "The work of more than forty different photographers, some known, some unidentified, the pictures in this book artfully present situations breathtaking and poignant and far exceed their fundamental documentary purpose. Like the Mutter Museum itself, this book challenges our concepts of humanity, of beauty, of science and art. It presents the stories of those who came before us and shows us what a puzzle life can be."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Mütter Museum > Photograph collections
• Mütter Museum
• Medical photography > History
• Medicine > History > Pictorial works
• Photograph collections > Philadelphia
• Medicine

Genre/Form

Pictorial Work.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Trauma -- Bandaging, Dressing, and Splints -- Amputation -- Hypertrophy, Malformation, and Excess Growth -- Congenital Deformity, Deficiency, and Disorder -- Paralysis -- Disease -- Dermatological Disorder -- Micrography -- Cysts and Tumors -- Psychological Disorder -- Teratology -- Autopsy and Dissection.

ISBN

• 9780922233281 (alk. paper)
• 0922233284 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007031924

OCLC

• ocn163589913
• 163589913
• SCSB-8853276

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries