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AcadieLibre
05-03-2009, 01:22 PM
Was surfing through NPR website and came across this article and the radio program on a new book coming out about Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 contains hundreds of pictures of medical students posing with the cadavers they were learning to dissect. Another interesting take on uses of photography over time.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103482236&sc=fb&cc=fp
tirediron
05-03-2009, 01:31 PM
How times have changed; students would be expelled and likely up on crimminal charges for doing that sort of thing today. Fascinating - thanks!
JAS_Photo
05-03-2009, 02:10 PM
They definitely had a sense of the macabre back then, what with the seances, Gothic novels, etc.