Morbid Anatomy

One of my favorite blogs… Morbid Anatomy is an “eye opening look at the intersection of art, medicine, death and culture”.

Ossuary

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The Sedlec Ossuary:

The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary contains approximately 40,000-70,000 human skeletons which have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.

Dissection

My copy of Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 came in the mail today and it is fantastic. It spans personal interests from the macabre to scientific/medical research to post-mortem photography.

Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930

From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients. Featuring 138 of these historic photographs and illuminating essays by two experts on the subject, Dissection reveals a startling piece of American history.

Published by Blast Books and available at Amazon now.