TY - BOOK ID - 143892361 TI - Dissection photography : cadavers, abjection, and the formation of identity PY - 2024 SN - 9781529222180 1529222184 PB - Bristol : Bristol University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Medical photography KW - Photography in education KW - Human dissection KW - Dead KW - Medical education KW - Cadaver KW - History KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143892361 AB - Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photographic portraits with their cadavers; a genre known as dissection photography.Featuring previously unseen images, stories, and anecdotes, this book explores the visual culture of death within the gross anatomy lab through the tradition of dissection photography, examining its historical aspects from both photographic and medical perspectives.The author pays particular attention to the use of dissection photographs as an expression of student identity, and as an evolving transgressive ritual intricately connected to, and eventually superseding, the act of dissection itself. ER -