Description Medical Photography and Symbolism by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. and Elizabeth A. Burns This intriguing and comprehensive exploration of the skeleton and the dead body includes more than 400 rare photographs. Stanley B. Burns, M.D. has over four decades focusing on unexplored areas. His books have place him in the forefront of medical photographic history scholarship. This work reveals the nineteenth-century with he dead body and body parts. The classic visual iconography of post mortem, dissection, and bone photography is presented and expanded to include early autopsy image, as well as X-ray studies. No prior visual work has presented thence very popular hobby of collecting skulls and also shown their use in racial and psychological profiling research. This sumptuously illustrated book with work of medical, historical, and cultural research. It is a timeless visual essay that will surely become a standard resource for collectors, curators, artists, and scholars.
