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'Dissection' Documents Med School Rite-Of-Passage

New book Dissection is a collection of black-and-white photos of Victorian-era medical students posing with their cadavers. The book's co-author, medical historian James Edmonson, says the photographs detail the med school experience at the turn of the 20th century.

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