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Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs (Hardcover)

~ College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Author), Laura Lindgren (Editor), Gretchen Worden (Introduction)
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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 of diseases not yet conquered in the 19th century, to pathological anomalies, to psychological disorders. Many were taken by talented photographers between the 1860s and the 1940s as records for physicians to share among colleagues and to track patients’ conditions, and demonstrate various techniques used in medical photography including the daguerreotype, micrography, X ray, and traditional portrait-style photography. As visual documents of what humans endured in the face of limited medical knowledge, these extraordinary and haunting photographs demonstrate how far medicine has advanced.

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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Blast Books; 1 edition (November 28, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0922233284
  • ISBN-13: 978-0922233281
  • Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #130,773 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Morbid and Beautiful, November 25, 2007
By Melissa S. Mutlu (Lake Orion, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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The Mutter Museum took me into a most surreal world of photography. What some might consider disgusting, disturbing, and grotesque, The Mutter Museum turns into a form most beautiful without exploiting those being photographed.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Quality, Fast Delivery!, December 29, 2007
This is an amazing book. Anyone interested in oddities, this will settle your craving. Lots of pictures and stories and well worth the money. There is so little time to spend at the Philadelphia museum and this book includes everything that is there plus more.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect strange gift, December 30, 2007
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I got this as a gift for my sister and having previously been to the museum, she was thrilled to have a book about it to look at whenever. It is packed with eerie pictures and information and is definitley worth giving it a look. If you or someone you know is interested in strange things, this is a perfect book for you. She said more than once that this was her favorite Christmas gift. Enjoy!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A utterly unique collection
Even though I had to wait weeks for it, the book is absolutely breath-taking. The photos are amazing and I've always been interested in such oddities and this definitely was... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Enough Solid Scientific Information
The truth is this books is in between two worlds, that of the scientific and that of the freakshow. I could say I'd prefer the former being a person with a disability myself (some... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating
This is a good source of interest for human oddities, and of history for conditions that are routinely corrected now.
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5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful indeed!
oh my my my... i've seen a few programs on television that spotlighted the mutter museum, and one day i should so love to visit. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Gretchen Block

3.0 out of 5 stars Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs
This book is very interesting if you are intrigued by medical history. but I wouldn't necessarily call it fascinating, like I was thinking it might be. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mark E. Negron

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