CNN's World's 10 weirdest medical museums

World's 10 weirdest medical museums CNN International In honor of International Museum Day on May 18, here are the world's weirdest medical museums. Bart's Pathology Museum, England A university collection ...

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Body Worlds plastination exhibit opens in NYC

Comfortable Out of Their Own Skin

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

New York Times May 10 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/arts/design/body-worlds-pulse-at-discovery-times-square.html

Three rare photographs of the US Navy Museum of Hygiene

All three images are bound in a copy of "Catalogue of The Exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy." Compiled by Philip S. Wales, Medical Director, U.S.N. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893 now held in BUMED's Office of Medical History.

The Museum. Present Home. 1707 New York Avenue, N.W. 1887-1893.
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The Museum. 2nd Home. S.E. Corner 18th & G Sts, NW. 1882-1887. 13-0103-002 The Museum. Birth-place. 18th + K Sts, N.W. 1879-1882. 13-0103-001

Posters at the National Library of Medicine

'Could you poison your child?': images from a century of medical propaganda; Health, history, and design collide at the National Library of Medicine

 By Amar Toor

The Verge April 12, 2013

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/12/4214262/national-library-of-medicine-online-image-archive-health-psa-posters

The first image, about a sailor blinded at Pearl Harbor, is by the noted cartoonist Alex Raymond.

Medical museum in Bangkok

Bangkok's macabre museum of death New Zealand Herald By Emily Gibson Emily Gibson discovers the gruesome displays on offer at Bangkok's Siriraj Medical Museum - the Museum of Death.

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Contamination under new medical museum building

Army finds contaminants, not source, at Forest Glen Annex

Study identifies high levels of chloroform, arsenic

by Sylvia Carignan
http://www.gazette.net/article/20130503/NEWS/130509415/1022/army-finds-contaminants-not-source-at-forest-glen-annex&template=gazette

Luckey Hospital Museum in Indiana

Luckey charm KPCnews.com Today, he volunteers at the museum. WOLF LAKE — Since 2003, the former Luckey Hospital has been a medical museum, with apartments currently on the second ...

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New medical museums article out

Stephen C. Kenny. "The Development of Medical Museums in the Antebellum American South: Slave Bodies in Networks of Anatomical Exchange." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87.1 (2013): 32-62.

New article on Body Worlds and the tradition of displaying human remains

"Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show

Nadja Durbach

J Hist Med Allied Sci (2012)

 http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/06/01/jhmas.jrs035.short

 

This was an overview article - interesting, but not too theoretical.