This intriguing and comprehensive exploration of the skeleton and the dead body includes over 400 rare photographs. Stanley B Burns, MD, has studied, collected and written on medical photography for over four decades focusing on unexplored areas. His books have placed him in the forefront of medical photographic history scholarship. This work reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the dead body and body parts. The classic visual iconography of post-mortem, dissection, and bone photography is presented and expanded to include early autopsy images and X-ray studies. No prior visual...
This intriguing and comprehensive exploration of the skeleton and the dead body includes over 400 rare photographs. Stanley B Burns, MD, has studied, ...
