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Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This book features over 100 photographs by a select group of renowned photographers whose work appears in the award-winning Mutter Museum calendars. Highlights include a bust of an early-19th-century Parisian widow with a six-inch horn protruding from the forehead; the connected livers of Chang and Eng, the world-famous Siamese twins; the skeleton of a 7’6” giant from Kentucky; and a collection of 139 skulls showing anatomic variation among ethnic groups in central and eastern Europe. Historical photographs from the museum’s archives, brief background texts about the collection, stunning photographs by acclaimed photographers including William Wegman and Joel-Peter Witkinand, and an introductory essay on the museum are also included.

ISBN-13: 9780922233243

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Blast Books

Publication Date: 10-07-2002

Pages: 192

Product Dimensions: 9.00(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

Sherwin B. Nuland

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Sherwin B. Nuland

This is a book of hauntingly beautiful images. Only magnificent photographs like these can do justice to the uniqueness of the Mutter Museum, a place of wonder and an unparalleled collection that startles the imagination while it widens a visitor's sense of our shared humanity.
— author of How We Die

Table of Contents

Preface.....7

Pathological Treasures of the Mutter Museum.....9

Plates.....17

Appendix.....177

Recommended Reading.....189

Index.....190

The Photographers.....192