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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 rehabilitative powers of studio portraiture.

Doctored The Medicine of Photography in NineteenthCentury America

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Examines the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture. Focuses on the American Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia to... Read more

    Publisher: Penn State University
    Publication Date: 3/28/2011 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780271037929, 978-0271037929
    ISBN10: 027103792X

    Number of Pages: 216

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    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 rehabilitative powers of studio portraiture.

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