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Mütter Museum

Author : Mütter Museum,College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215345054

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Mütter Museum by Mütter Museum,College of Physicians of Philadelphia Pdf

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.

Dr. Mutter's Marvels

Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698162105

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Dr. Mutter's Marvels by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Pdf

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century. Although he died at just forty-eight, Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time. Brilliant, outspoken, and brazenly handsome, Mütter was flamboyant in every aspect of his life. He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his last name just because he could, and amassed an immense collection of medical oddities that would later form the basis of Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum. Award-winning writer Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz vividly chronicles how Mütter’s efforts helped establish Philadelphia as a global mecca for medical innovation—despite intense resistance from his numerous rivals. (Foremost among them: Charles D. Meigs, an influential obstetrician who loathed Mütter’s "overly" modern medical opinions.) In the narrative spirit of The Devil in the White City, Dr. Mütter’s Marvels interweaves an eye-opening portrait of nineteenth-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room."

Weird U.S.

Author : Mark Moran,Mark Sceurman
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 1402766882

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Weird U.S. by Mark Moran,Mark Sceurman Pdf

Covering all 50 states, "Weird U.S." takes an unconventional look at the oddities, outcasts, and just plain strange things to see or do in America.

Pennsylvania

Author : Matt Lake
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1402766866

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Pennsylvania by Matt Lake Pdf

A illustrated collection of tales about weird places and folk traditions in Pennsylvania to be used as a travel guide.

Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Author : Gretchen Worden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015047908531

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Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Gretchen Worden Pdf

Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This book features over 100 photographs by a select group of renowned photographers whose work appears in the award-winning Mutter Museum calendars. Highlights include a bust of an early-19th-century Parisian widow with a six-inch horn protruding from the forehead; the connected livers of Chang and Eng, the world-famous Siamese twins; the skeleton of a 7 6 giant from Kentucky; and a collection of 139 skulls showing anatomic variation among ethnic groups in central and eastern Europe. Historical photographs from the museum s archives, brief background texts about the collection, stunning photographs by acclaimed photographers including William Wegman and Joel-Peter Witkinand, and an introductory essay on the museum are also included."

Skulls and Skeletons

Author : Christine Quigley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 078641068X

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Skulls and Skeletons by Christine Quigley Pdf

Of the parts of the human body, the bones have a unique durability that lends itself to collection. Provided a body has not been cremated, the skeletal remains can be recovered even millions of years after death, cleaned of flesh and debris, studied at length, and stored indefinitely without the maintenance that wet specimens require. Motivations for collecting human skeletal material range from the practical (in anthropology, medicine, forensics) to the ritualistic (phrenology, in the relics of martyrs and saints). This book is an examination of those motivations and the collections they have brought about--catacombs, ossuaries, mass graves, prehistoric excavations, private collections, and institutions. The book contains sections on procuring, handling, storing, transporting, cleaning, and identifying skeletal remains. The repatriation of remains and legislation covering the topic are also addressed.

Designing Motherhood

Author : Michelle Millar Fisher,Amber Winick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262044899

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Designing Motherhood by Michelle Millar Fisher,Amber Winick Pdf

More than eighty designs--iconic, archaic, quotidian, and taboo--that have defined the arc of human reproduction. While birth often brings great joy, making babies is a knotty enterprise. The designed objects that surround us when it comes to menstruation, birth control, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood vary as oddly, messily, and dramatically as the stereotypes suggest. This smart, image-rich, fashion-forward, and design-driven book explores more than eighty designs--iconic, conceptual, archaic, titillating, emotionally charged, or just plain strange--that have defined the relationships between people and babies during the past century. Each object tells a story. In striking images and engaging text, Designing Motherhood unfolds the compelling design histories and real-world uses of the objects that shape our reproductive experiences. The authors investigate the baby carrier, from the Snugli to BabyBjörn, and the (re)discovery of the varied traditions of baby wearing; the tie-waist skirt, famously worn by a pregnant Lucille Ball on I Love Lucy, and essential for camouflaging and slowly normalizing a public pregnancy; the home pregnancy kit, and its threat to the authority of male gynecologists; and more. Memorable images--including historical ads, found photos, and drawings--illustrate the crucial role design and material culture plays throughout the arc of human reproduction. The book features a prologue by Erica Chidi and a foreword by Alexandra Lange. Contributors Luz Argueta-Vogel, Zara Arshad, Nefertiti Austin, Juliana Rowen Barton, Lindsey Beal, Thomas Beatie, Caitlin Beach, Maricela Becerra, Joan E. Biren, Megan Brandow-Faller, Khiara M. Bridges, Heather DeWolf Bowser, Sophie Cavoulacos, Meegan Daigler, Anna Dhody, Christine Dodson, Henrike Dreier, Adam Dubrowski, Michelle Millar Fisher, Claire Dion Fletcher, Tekara Gainey, Lucy Gallun, Angela Garbes, Judy S. Gelles, Shoshana Batya Greenwald, Robert D. Hicks, Porsche Holland, Andrea Homer-Macdonald, Alexis Hope, Malika Kashyap, Karen Kleiman, Natalie Lira, Devorah L Marrus, Jessica Martucci, Sascha Mayer, Betsy Joslyn Mitchell, Ginger Mitchell, Mark Mitchell, Aidan O’Connor, Lauren Downing Peters, Nicole Pihema, Alice Rawsthorn, Helen Barchilon Redman, Airyka Rockefeller, Julie Rodelli, Raphaela Rosella, Loretta J. Ross, Ofelia Pérez Ruiz, Hannah Ryan, Karin Satrom, Tae Smith, Orkan Telhan, Stephanie Tillman, Sandra Oyarzo Torres, Malika Verma, Erin Weisbart, Deb Willis, Carmen Winant, Brendan Winick, Flaura Koplin Winston

The Buried Past

Author : John L. Cotter,Daniel G. Roberts,Michael Parrington
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 9780812231427

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The Buried Past by John L. Cotter,Daniel G. Roberts,Michael Parrington Pdf

The Buried Past presents the most significant archaeological discoveries made in one of America's most historic cities. Based on more than thirty years of intensive archaeological investigations in the greater Philadelphia area, this study contains the first record of many nationally important sites linking archaeological evidence to historical documentation, including Interdependence and Valley Forge National Historical Parks. It provides an archaeological tour through the houses and life-ways of both the great figures and the common people. It reveals how people dined, what vessels and dishes they used, and what their trinkets (and secret sins) were.

Fodor's Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400018222

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Fodor's Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country by Anonim Pdf

Describes hotels, historic sites, museums, events, shopping areas, and night life in Philadelphia, and looks at the highlights of the surrounding area, including Brandywine Valley, Bucks County, Lancaster County, and Valley Forge

Bone Rooms

Author : Samuel J. Redman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674969735

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Bone Rooms by Samuel J. Redman Pdf

A Smithsonian Book of the Year A Nature Book of the Year “Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.” —Smithsonian “How did our museums become great storehouses of human remains? What have we learned from the skulls and bones of unburied dead? Bone Rooms chases answers to these questions through shifting ideas about race, anatomy, anthropology, and archaeology and helps explain recent ethical standards for the collection and display of human dead.” —Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors “Details the nascent views of racial science that evolved in U.S. natural history, anthropological, and medical museums...Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind [these debates]...pitting the prickly Aleš Hrdlička at the Smithsonian...against ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History.” —David Hurst Thomas, Nature “In exquisite detail...Bone Rooms narrates the rise and fall of racial science in America...This complicated and engrossing story is filled with unexpected twists and significant implications for the history of anthropology...and intellectual history of race in the United States, and American intellectual history more generally.” —Matthew Dennis, author of Seneca Possessed “A beautifully written, meticulously documented analysis of [this] little-known history.” —Brian Fagan, Current World Archeology In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory. Seeking evidence to support new theories of racial classification, collectors embarked on a global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons, mummies, and fossils. As the study of these discoveries increasingly discredited racial theory, new ideas emerging in the budding field of anthropology displaced race as the main motive for building bone rooms. Today, debates about the ethics of these collections have taken on a new urgency as a new generation seeks to learn about the indigenous past and to return objects of spiritual significance to native peoples.

The Mütter Museum

Author : Anna Dhody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0764359886

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The Mütter Museum by Anna Dhody Pdf

Join A.J., the Mütter Museum's junior guide, on a tour of the world's best-known medical museum. A.J. will take you on a fun and educational adventure through the Mütter's amazing collection of unique medical specimens and objects. Accompanied by playful illustrations, this look at medical marvels and mysteries will enthrall and inform science lovers of all ages. A.J. has all of your questions covered; from the height of the Giant to the length of the Megacolon. Learn all about how the human body works (or doesn't!), and keep your eyes peeled for some of the museum's most famous see-through residents!

500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late

Author : Michael Stern
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0547059078

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500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late by Michael Stern Pdf

Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Author : College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102981651

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Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by College of Physicians of Philadelphia Pdf

An Account of the Institution and Progress of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia During a Hundred Years, from January, 1787

Author : William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Physicians
ISBN : UOM:39015057725213

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An Account of the Institution and Progress of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia During a Hundred Years, from January, 1787 by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger Pdf