Haunting Images: Photography, Dissection and Medical Students
Tomfoolery and Humor
Medical students occasionally made prank photographs with a humorous intent. A popular subject is having the cadaver join in a card game. Another variant features a role reversal: the medical student on the dissection table, attended by cadavers.
Group Portraits Postcards Class Photographs
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in
American Medicine 1880-1930
By John Harley Warner and James M. Edmonson.
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