Friday, May 29th, 2009

Dissection

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, ca. 1910. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut Image used by permission of Blast Books, Inc.

A new book uses photographs to tell the history of a medical school essential, human anatomy taught through dissection. We'll talk with James M. Edmonson, Chief Curator of the Dittrick Medical History Center and co-author of the new book "Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930," about what can be learned from old med school snapshots.

Guests

James M. Edmonson
Co-author, "Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930"
Chief Curator, Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum
Case Western Reserve University
Allen Memorial Medical Library
Cleveland, Ohio

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Segment produced by:Annette Heist

Image: Western Female Seminary (renamed the Western College for Women in 1904), Oxford, Ohio. Miami University Libraries, Western College Memorial Archives, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
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Image: Postcard, 1911, inscribed on back: “Dr. ___’s first patient!” DMHC
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Image: “A Student’s Dream,” 1906. Copyright marked A. A. Robinson. A standing skeleton joins seated cadavers, preparing to dissect a sleeping medical student. DMHC.
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Image: Anatomy lab, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, 1901. Courtesy of the Galter Health Sciences Library Special Collections, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Image used by permission of Blast Books, Inc.