An edition of Doctored
(2011)
Doctored
the medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America
by Tanya Sheehan
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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"--Provided by publisher.
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Doctored: the medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America
2011, Pennsylvania State University Press
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027103792X 9780271037929
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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