A Repository for Bottled Monsters: Morbid Anatomy

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Friday, April 30, 2010

At Observatory in Brooklyn

If you're in the neighborhood, Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy is hosting Three Unique Medical Museums in Northern Italy tomorrow night. $5 for great entertainment in New York? What a bargain. Go.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy reports she's on YouTube: "My Library (and, sadly, me), Now on You Tube.

"For those of you who've not been to the Morbid Anatomy Library yet,
this short (and embarrassing) video will give you a sense of what I'm
up to over here in Brooklyn (and maybe urge some of you to come pay a
visit!). A bit hard to watch for me, but some of you may enjoy it."

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2009/12/morbid-anatomy-library-on-you-tube.html

You can also see her at
www.astropop.com
morbidanatomy.blogspot.com

Friday, October 16, 2009

Morbid Anatomy in Time Out New York

Joanna Ebenstein has an article profiling her in Time Out New York. She's the force behind morbidanatomy.blogspot.com which has said kind things about us in the past. There's a lot of pictures on the website.

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/halloween/79539/morbid-anatomy-library

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Anatomical Theatre website launches

Morbid Anatomy's launched a new site based on an exhibit of photographs she's done. She writes "I have finally launched the website for Anatomical Theatre, the photographic exhibition of medical museum artifacts. For more information about the project, check out the "Introduction" and "Press Release" pages."

Wax and plaster models as well as other specimens from the NMHM are included.

Who are we?

Mike Rhode was the chief archivist of the Museum from 1989-2011, and is the founder of this blog. I maintain an interest in the course of the museum, and will be posting relevant information.

The Army Medical Museum was founded in 1862 during the American Civil War. After World War II, a parent-child relationship was inverted and the Museum became part of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Since then, the Museum has moved around Washington, stopping for years in Ford's Theatre, and on the National Mall where the building it shared with the National Library of Medicine once stood, until it was demolished in 1968 for the Hirshhorn Museum. For 35 years it was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and now is in Silver Spring, MD.

So what about that blog name?

It's historical. I found it in a quote from one of the former curators. World War II confirmed the Army Medical Museum's primary role in pathology consultation. James Ash, the curator during the war and a pathologist, noted, "Shortly after the last war, more concerted efforts were instituted to concentrate in the Army Medical Museum the significant pathologic material occurring in Army installations." He closed with the complaint, "We still suffer under the connotation museum, an institution still thought of by many as a repository for bottled monsters and medical curiosities. To be sure, we have such specimens. As is required by law, we maintain an exhibit open to the public, but in war time, at least, the museum per se is the least of our functions, and we like to be thought of as the Army Institute of Pathology, a designation recently authorized by the Surgeon General."

After the war, it evolved into the tri-service Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

A Repository for Bottled Monsters

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Friday, April 30, 2010

At Observatory in Brooklyn

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Morbid Anatomy on TV

Friday, October 16, 2009

Morbid Anatomy in Time Out New York

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Anatomical Theatre website launches

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