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Morning's Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive & Collection 1843-1939 [Hardcover]

Stanley Burns (Author)
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Burns is an ophthamlic surgeon, but his true passion is vintage photography. He has assembled a collection of more than half a million images and has authored or coauthored works on memorial photography, medical photography, and hand-colored daguerreotypes. Here he presents 127 images in as many pages and then another 50 or so pages of notes, providing specifics of the photographs and extensive discussion of the condition or medical practices shown. More than a few gruesome images are included, though the warm tones of the printing and the antique dress have an anesthetizing effect on the viewer. There are also a good number of images depicting obsolete mid-19th-century practices. The chronological arrangement does impart a sense of progress as we move from images of horrible deformity through pictures of amputation during the Civil War to photos of reparative surgery following World War I. This stunning documentation of a world-class collection belongs not only where there is an interest in the history of photography but also in medical teaching and history collections.?Eric Bryant, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Stunning look at the human body, Dec 17 2002
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This review is from: Morning's Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive & Collection 1843-1939 (Hardcover)
This book is very harsh, unpleasant, impressive. Not at all for anybody because you need tohave the guts to keep your glance at the pictures mirroring the abnormal, the illnesses, the horror of nature, the facts of the old times of surgery. As Bacon's paintings these pictures have a very sui-generis esthetics, based upon the ugly and the deformity.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My god these people are beautiful, Oct 10 2001
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"superbison" (Savannah, Ga United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Morning's Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive & Collection 1843-1939 (Hardcover)
This collection of photographs and plates are some of the most concise findings on the medical world I have ever seen. It has opened my eyes to these people and has given me something new and interesting to learn about. I really enjoy seeing how far we have come in the field of medicine but also the advancement has diminished the frequency of medical oddities that are found in this book. I really recomend this to anyone who has an interest in the medical field and all of its mishaps.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An uncommon window into the medically abnormal, Dec 30 2000
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Holly Christensen (Akron, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This book of stunning, yet disturbing, photographs of medical anomalies spanning 100 years from the mid-19th c., may not be for everyone. It is a comprehensive visual essay into things that we find fascinating, yet repulsive. Unlike a carnival sideshow, however, the purpose of this wonderful book is not to cynically trivialize the individuals illustrated. Like the Mütter Museum, (Mütter Museum: Philadelphia College of Physicians, 19 South 22nd Street, between Chestnut and Market Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm), Stanley Burns' book is a window into the 19th century propensity to gather esoteric information of all types, organize it and, ultimately, to exhibit it as the means to greater knowledge.
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