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Conventions of Display:Exhibition in Twentieth-Century American Medicine
Miriam Posner • Yale University • [email protected]
CONVENTIONS OF DISPLAY:EXHIBITION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN MEDICINE
MIRIAM POSNERYALE [email protected]
Washington Post, June 7, 1937
Freeman (second from left) demonstrating at an exhibit
Freeman (second from left) demonstrating at an exhibit
Stevan Dohanos, At the Convention, 1960 (detail)
Photograph from Hull and Jones, Scientific Exhibits (1961)
1899: the exhibit begins
Journal of the American Medical Association, June 17, 1899
1899 – 1945: the exhibit expands
Demonstrating an exhibit, 1935
Illustration from Hull and Jones, Scientific Exhibits (1961)
Illustration from Hull and Jones, Scientific Exhibits (1961)
Demonstrating an exhibit, 1935
Floor plan for 1925 AMA Scientific Exhibit
Floor plan for 1925 AMA Scientific Exhibit
1945 – 1965: the exhibit’s baroque period
Demonstrating an exhibit, 1955
AMA’s Scientific Exhibit, ca. 1960
Demonstrating an exhibit, 1955
An audiovisual exhibit, 1962
A live demonstration, 1962
Closed-circuit television, 1949
1965 – 1980: the exhibit in decline
A young scientist and his poster, 2006
2006 exhibit award winners at the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists convention
A PowerPoint template for medical presentations
1. A lively, interactive pedagogical and probative culture
An interactive exhibit, 1962
2. Medicine and showmanship
The technical exhibit, 1935
Floor plan, 1925 AMA Scientific Exhibit
Illustration from Hull and Jones, Scientific Exhibits (1961)
3. Palpability and virtuality
A fresh tissue pathology exhibit, 1962
4. Opening the body to display
Filming an operation, 1953