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Doctored : the medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America

"Examines the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture. Focuses on the American Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia to explore how medical models and metaphors helped establish the professional legitimacy of commercial photography while promoting belief in the rehabil...

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Main Author: Sheehan, Tanya (Author)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park ; Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011
Subjects:
USA
Author Notes:Tanya Sheehan
Table of Contents:
  • Educating "doctors of photography" : medical models and the institutionalization of photographic knowledge
  • Making faces and taking off heads : the operations of photography and medicine
  • "Panes curing pains" : light as medicine in the photographic studio
  • A matter of public health : photographic chemistry and the (re)production of healthy bodies
  • Photo doctors and pixel surgeons : the medicine of photography in the digital age.