Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 092223342X ISBN 13: 9780922233427

Casa editrice: Blast Books, 2012

Riassunto

A celebration of the 175 anniversary of the National Library of Medicine includes 80 objects from the museum, each coupled with an essay, in a showcase that features medical books, rare manuscripts, "magic lantern" slides, toys, stereograph cards, posters and more, ranging from the 13th to 20th centuries and including specimens from the U.S. and around the world.

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Recensione:

"My fantasy holiday is a week spent locked in the archives of the National Library of Medicine, so you can imagine how excited I am about this book. It's an incomparable treasure trove. I hugged it to my chest like a four-year-old with a new pair of shoes." — Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Packing for Mars

L'autore:

Michael Sappol is curator-historian at the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine and the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America and Dream Anatomy and co-editor of A Cultural History of the Body in the Age of Empire.

Laura Lindgren designs art and photography books and exhibition catalogs for publishers and museums. She is also publisher of Blast Books in New York, and she is the editor, designer, and publisher of Mütter Museum and Mütter Museum Historic Medical Photographs, and Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880?1930, among others.

Arne Svenson is the author of Prisoners and Mrs. Ballard’s Parrots and photographer and coauthor (with Ron Warren) of Sock Monkeys (200 out of 1863) and Chewed. He is currently working on a new book on forensic facial reconstructions, Unspeaking Likeness.

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• Editore: Blast Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 092223342X
• ISBN 13: 9780922233427
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 239
• Redattore: Sappol Michael