Diana “Dickie” Orpen, BAPRAS/D 393, 1944, Archives of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgeons, London.
Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain
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Image from: William Macewan, The Growth of Bone: Observations: An Experimental Inquiry into the Development and Reproduction of Diaphyseal Bone (Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1912).
Anonymity in Patient Photography: Histories, Aesthetics, and Ethics
Animals dressed as doctors are about to dissect a man in an operating theatre, colour lithograph, c. 1910, Wellcome Collection.
Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Humour, Health, and the Body
Andy Warhol, Before and After, 4, acrylic and graphite pencil on linen, 1962, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“Noses Reshaped”: The Surgical, Cosmetic, and Connoisseurial Gazes in Andy Warhol’s Before and After (1961-1962)
Dr. Christine Slobogin 