Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

by Tanya Sheehan

In Doctored, Tanya Sheehan takes a new look at the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheehan focuses on Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia, exploring the ways in which medical models and metaphors helped strengthen the professional legitimacy of the city's commercial photographic community at a time when it was not well established. By reading the trade literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271037938
• ISBN13: 9780271037936
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"