false 6422242 1 <DIV><DIV>As early as the 1840s, against admonishments to maintain secrecy, medical students and their instructors began to create photographic images of themselves centered around cadavers in dissecting rooms. This would become one of the most ubiquitous and archetypal forms of medical portraiture before 1930, and yet it vanished almost completely after 1950. These photographs were made in a surprising variety of forms, from <I>cartes de visite</I> to postcards to staged dark humor scenes. <I>Dissection</I> features 135 extraordinary examples of this collaboration of early photography and medicine, with illuminating essays by two experts on the subject.</DIV> 6611461 1 5 2009 Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 total:1|5:1| 1 5 31 3 0 0 false false Sat Apr 25 12:22:57 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 12:24:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Aug 18 05:38:34 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 05:40:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 28 10:26:52 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 10:27:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 09:32:58 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 09:33:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 13 05:34:02 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 05:34:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 10 10:20:08 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 10:20:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 30 15:44:28 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 15:44:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 20 09:13:52 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 09:13:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 01 21:07:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 21:07:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 14 20:08:22 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 20:08:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 14 18:52:58 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 18:52:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 13 10:44:15 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 10:44:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 11:33:50 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:33:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 06 15:07:33 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 15:07:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 26 19:35:57 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 19:35:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 13 15:46:24 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 00:55:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 08 10:07:41 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 10:07:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 04 18:36:10 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 18:36:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 04 07:24:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 07:24:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 03 09:28:02 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 09:28:02 -0700 2009