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Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

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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.

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Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America 2013, Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

ISBN-13: 9780271037936

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Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America 2011, Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

ISBN-13: 9780271037929

Hardcover