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Doctored

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Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271037936

The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

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By Tanya Sheehan
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: February 13, 2013
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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.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Educating “Doctors of Photography”: Medical Models and the Institutionalization of Photographic Knowledge

2 Making Faces and Taking Off Heads: The Operations of Photography and Medicine

3 “Panes Curing Pains”: Light as Medicine in the Photographic Studio

4 A Matter of Public Health: Photographic Chemistry and the (Re)production of Healthy Bodies

5 Photo Doctors and Pixel Surgeons: The Medicine of Photography in the Digital Age

Appendix: Philadelphia Photographic Periodicals, 1864–1890

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

“Doctored is a refreshing look at the history of photography, and Sheehan effortlessly yet cautiously uses theory to support her arguments.”

—Kristi Johnson, Journal of American Culture

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