Haunting Images: Photography and Dissection, An Online Exhibit

Welcome back to the Dittrick Musuem Blog! Last week, we featured an online exhibit about dermatology and photography, featuring the work of William Thomas Corlett. This week, I will be presenting material that I have always found personally fascinating--a history of anatomy in pictures! This online exhibit features photographs from our collection of approximately three hundred dissection images (yes!). Most of these intriguing photographs feature a group of students gathered around the cadaver, either actively dissecting or just posing, often wearing their best suits. The students, not the cadavers. Well, not usually. Anatomical dissection and medical education. Beginning in fourteenth century Italy and lasting...

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