Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons write by Stanley B. Burns. This book was released on 2015. Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This intriguing and comprehensive exploration of the skeleton and the dead body includes more than 400 rare photographs. Stanley B. Burns, MD, has studied, collected and written on medical photography for over four decades focusing on unexplored areas. His books have placed him in the forefront of medical photographic history scholarship. This work reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the dead body and body parts. The classic visual iconography of postmortem, dissection, and bone photography is presented and expanded to include early autopsy images and X-ray studies. No prior visual work has presented the once very popular hobby of collecting skulls and also shown their use in racial and psychological profiling research. This sumptuously illustrated book with previously unpublished photographs is an extraordinary work of medical, historical and cultural research. It is a timeless visual essay that will surely become a standard resource for collectors, curators, artists, and scholars.
Bone Rooms
Bone Rooms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bone Rooms write by Samuel J. Redman. This book was released on 2016-03-14. Bone Rooms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Smithsonian Book of the Year A Nature Book of the Year “Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.” —Smithsonian In 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory. Seeking evidence to support new theories of racial classification, collectors embarked on a global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons, mummies, and fossils. As the study of these discoveries discredited racial theory, new ideas emerging in the budding field of anthropology displaced race as the main motive for building bone rooms. Today, as a new generation seeks to learn about the indigenous past, momentum is building to return objects of spiritual significance to native peoples. “A beautifully written, meticulously documented analysis of [this] little-known history.” —Brian Fagan, Current World Archeology “How did our museums become great storehouses of human remains? Bone Rooms chases answers...through shifting ideas about race, anatomy, anthropology, and archaeology and helps explain recent ethical standards for the collection and display of human dead.” —Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors “Details the nascent views of racial science that evolved in U.S. natural history, anthropological, and medical museums...Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind [these debates]...pitting the prickly Aleš Hrdlička at the Smithsonian...against ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History.” —David Hurst Thomas, Nature
Geisha
Geisha - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geisha write by Stanley B. Burns. This book was released on 2006. Geisha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese Geisha and courtesans intrigue and fascinate Westerners. During the mid-19th century, Japan opened its doors to the world and became an essential destination for travellers. Geisha: A Photographic History 1872-1912 documents the intimate life and culture of this 19th century icon. It portrays the artists of these images in a cultural reality created by staged studio photography, private scenes and rare outdoor images. Essential viewing.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers write by Mary Roach. This book was released on 2004-04-27. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
Jake's Bones
Jake's Bones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jake's Bones write by Jake McGowan-Lowe. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Jake's Bones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jake McGowan-Lowe is a boy with a very unusual hobby. Since the age of 7, he has been photographing and blogging about his incredible finds and now has a worldwide following, including 100,000 visitors from the US and Canada. Follow Jake as he explores the animal world through this new 64-page book. He takes you on a world wide journey of his own collection, and introduces you to other amazing animals from the four corners of the globe. Find out what a cow's tooth, a rabbit's rib and a duck's quack look like and much, much more besides.
