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The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration 1st Edition
Author: Richard Barnett ID: 1938922409

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The old lithographs that fill page after page of Barnett’s THE SICK ROSE are of people and the diseases they suffer-from commonplace ailments like eczema to gout to cancer. And the pictures are…horible. And beautiful. And horrible. They are skillfully and carefully-almost lovingly-done by anonymous artists. (Lucas Peterson Flaunt 2014-03-01)

Hardcover: 256 pagesPublisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.; 1 edition (May 31, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1938922409ISBN-13: 978-1938922404 Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 7 x 10 inches Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #18,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #7 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Special Topics > History #69 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Pop Culture > Art
This gorgeously designed little 7" x 10" book, ‘little’ being relative to typically oversized art monographs, is one of the most paradoxically appealing and revolting releases of the year. I have long admired D.A.P.’s commitment to utilizing the highest-quality materials and binding in every book they publish, and The Sick Rose is no exception. The writing is informative and impeccably researched, delving into the gruesome history of anatomical research in a professional manner that walks the tightrope between sensationalistic indulgence of morbid fascination on the one side, and overly clinical jargon designed to emotionally distance the reader on the other. The earliest years of what would become modern medicine were remarkable in the lengths these ‘Resurrectionists’ went to in obtaining corpses for study. For a time, condemned criminals were routinely sentenced to death and public dissection, their bodies donated to the Medical Institutes. This practice was ended in the early 19th Century, but parliament allowed that any person found dead without identification and/or someone willing to claim their body would be fair game for anatomical research. This amounted to depriving the poorest classes of any guarantee that they would be given a decent burial, and many were outraged that poverty alone meant they might be dissected publicly like criminals. ‘Burial Insurance’ became a popular method of avoiding the indignities that might have been inflicted on their bodies. As test subjects became scarce, members of the nascent medical community were complicit in murder, paying money to the ‘Ghouls’ that stalked the harbors for departing ships, where they would kill drunken sailors not likely to be missed and deliver them to the Anatomists.
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