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Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930\u00a0 Order form<\/a>
\nLinks to book reviews and author interviews<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"Dissection<\/a>Thursday, April 23, 2009
\n<\/strong>Behind the Doors of Anatomy Class:Dissection is a rare photographic journey of medical students and their cadavers, by Susan Griffith
\nCWRU News Center
\nhttp:\/\/blog.case.edu\/case-news\/2009\/04\/23\/dissectionbook<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday, April 24, 2009
\n<\/strong>Gather ‘Round the Cadaver: A new book examines photographs of medical students posing with the bodies they dissected.
\nBy Barron H. Lerner
\nSlate.com
\nhttp:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2216761\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 25, 2009
\n<\/strong>Person or Specimen? Cadavers in the medical dissection lab<\/a> by Jessica Palmer
\nBioephemera
\nhttp:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/bioephemera\/2009\/04\/people_or_things_cadavers_in_t.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday, April 26, 2009
\n<\/strong>Cadavers, camera, action!\u00a0 With the rise of photography, portraiture entered the medical-school dissecting room.\u00a0 Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930
\nNew York Times Book Review, April 26, 2009, p.17<\/p>\n

Monday, April 27, 2009
\n<\/strong>Case Western Reserve University’s Allen Memorial Medical Library displays ‘Haunting Images’ from a century ago, by Brian Albrecht\/Plain Dealer Reporter Cleveland.com
\nhttp:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/healthfit\/index.ssf\/2009\/04\/case_western_reserve_universit_3.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
\n<\/strong>Snapshots From the Days of Bare-Hands Anatomy, by Abigail Zuger, M.D.
\nNew York Times \/ Health section:\u00a0 review of Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930
\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/28\/health\/28book.html?ref=views
\n<\/a>
\nWednesday, April 29, 2009
\n<\/strong>Photographic History of Human Dissection, by Elizabeth Redden
\nInside Higher Ed
\nhttp:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/04\/29\/dissection<\/a><\/p>\n

Most emailed on NYT on April 28, 2009:
\n<\/strong>HEALTH\u00a0Books: Snapshots From the Days of Bare-Hands Anatomy, by Abigail Zuger, M.D.
\nCapturing a photo craze inspired by cadavers of flesh and blood.
\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/gst\/mostemailed.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday, May 2, 2009<\/strong> (author interview)
\n<\/strong>Portraits Capture Life in Dissecting Class
\nHeard on All Things Considered
\nJacki Lyden, host interviews Dissection author John Harley Warner http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=104708421<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday, May 29, 2009<\/strong> (author interview)
\nScience Friday, with Ira Flatow
\nA 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.
\nhttp:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/program\/archives\/200905295<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon.com \u00a0Best Books of 2009<\/strong>
\nTop 10 Books: Science
\nWelcome to our Best of 2009 top 10 lists for Science. We’ve put our editors’ picks and our 2009 bestsellers for each category on the same page together, so you can easily compare. Click on “Editors’ Picks” to see our editors’ list of the best science books of 2009, including our top pick, The Age of Wonder<\/a>, Richard Holmes’s delightfully masterful group biography of the adventurous scientists of Britain’s Romantic age. And click on “Customer Favorites” to find the bestselling science books at Amazon.com during 2009. (Ranked according to customer orders through October. Only books published for the first time in 2009 are eligible.)
\nSee more editors’ picks and customers’ favorites in our Best of 2009 Store<\/a>.http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html\/ref=br_lf_m_
\n1000446551_grlink_1?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000446551<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday, December 6, 2009
\n<\/strong>The Dissection Room Photo – A Lost Genre of Medical Portraiture, Observatory, Brooklyn, New York
\nAs listed in the website of the New York Academy of Sciences
\nhttp:\/\/www.nyas.org\/Events\/SCDetail.aspx?cid=b4b90d85-0a89-4bf4-ae91-6abcef5df346<\/a><\/p>\n

WNYC NPR New York<\/strong> (author interview)<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/lopate\/episodes\/2009\/12\/07\/segments\/145604<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday, December 07, 2009<\/strong>
\nAuthor James Edmonson, Chief Curator of the Dittrick Medical Center and Museum at Case Western Reserve University, explains why, in the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, medical students took pictures of themselves with the cadavers they dissected. His book Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine<\/a> includes 138 rare, historic photographs that reveal a strange piece of American medical history.
\nView photographs from the book Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine here. <\/a><\/p>\n

Winter 2009-2010<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Book review<\/a> in Watermark<\/em> newsletter of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences<\/p>\n

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Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930\u00a0 Order form<\/a>
\nLinks to book reviews and author interviews<\/em>
\n<\/a>Thursday, April 23, 2009
\n<\/strong>Behind the Doors of Anatomy Class:Dissection is a rare photographic journey of medical students and their cadavers, by Susan Griffith
\nCWRU News Center
\nhttp:\/\/blog.case.edu\/case-news\/2009\/04\/23\/dissectionbook<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday, April 24, 2009
\n<\/strong>Gather ‘Round the Cadaver: A new book examines photographs of medical students posing with the bodies they dissected.
\nBy Barron H. Lerner
\nSlate.com
\nhttp:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2216761\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday,<\/strong><\/p>\n

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