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ISO Fellow James Edmonson examines the origins of a dead practice...and its descendants
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930
New book published by Blast Books, co-authored by John Harley Warner and James Edmonson
New exhibit tours museums around the country. On campus April 3- May 24
Location: Allen Memorial Library (corner Euclid Ave and Adelbert Road)
James Edmonson, Ph.D., is chief curator of CWRU's Dittrick Medical History Center
Buy the Book! on Amazon.com
Media Coverage:
April 23, 2009
Behind the Doors of Anatomy Class: Dissection is a rare photographic journey of medical students and their cadavers
By Susan Griffith, CWRU News Center
April 24, 2009
Gather 'Round the Cadaver A new book examines photographs of medical students posing with the bodies they dissected.
By Barron H. Lerner, Slate.com
April 25, 2009
Person or Specimen? Cadavers in the medical dissection lab
By Jessica Palmer, Bioephemera
April 26, 2009
Cadavers, camera, action! With the rise of photography, portraiture entered the medical-school dissecting room. Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930
New York Times Book Review, April 26, 2009, p.17
April 27, 2009
Case Western Reserve University's Allen Memorial Medical Library displays 'Haunting Images' from a century ago
by Brian Albrecht, Cleveland Plain Dealer
April 28, 2009
Snapshots From the Days of Bare-Hands Anatomy, review of Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930
by Abigail Zuger, M.D., New York Times / Health section
Inside Higher Ed, Feature Article
by Elizabeth Redden
Portraits Capture Life In Dissecting Class
interview of John Warner by Jacki Lyden, NPR All Things Considered
May 29, 2009
Listen Online: 'Dissection' Documents Med School Rite-Of-Passage
Download Podcast: 'Dissection' Podcast
interview with Jim Edmonson by Ira Flatow on NPR's Science Friday
