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This is a lavishly illustrated, beautifully executed compilation of some of the best medical photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons can be appreciated as a visual record of medical history. It also documents changes in medicine within a larger social context. Technologic innovations allowed increasing informality, spontaneity, and opportunity for the amateur physician-photographer, taking medical photography out of the portrait studio and into the medical classroom.

Source: Clinics in Dermatology - November 1, 2015 Category: Dermatology Authors: Mark Bernhardt Tags: Book Review Source Type: research