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Sheehan s examination of medical photography in light of the larger dynamics of nineteenth-century photographic portraiture offers a way to integrate the history of medical photography with the history of Civil War photography. Andrea Volpe, The Journal of the Civil War Era

Doctored, by Tanya Sheehan, draws fascinating connections between the early days of studio photography and established medical practices of the day. . . . [Sheehan] spends a great deal of time discussing the cultural history of Victorian Philadelphia, explaining not just the similarities between medicine and photography but also the general public view of photography and its impact on race relations as well as a person's place in society. This book is just as much a historical account of Victorian American society as it is a history of the portrait photography industry. --Annie Moore, ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology

Tanya Sheehan . . . provides a unique, innovative comparative study of the development of the relationship between portrait and medical photography in Philadelphia during the nineteenth century. . . . Sheehan effectively demonstrates how the past has strongly influenced the present, richly contextualizing the doctoring of photographs. Elizabeth K. Mix, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

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Tanya Sheehan is Associate Professor in the Art Department at Colby College.

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