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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 POSNER YALE UNIVERSITY [email protected]

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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]

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Washington Post, June 7, 1937

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Freeman (second from left) demonstrating at an exhibit

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Freeman (second from left) demonstrating at an exhibit

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Stevan Dohanos, At the Convention, 1960 (detail)

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Photograph from Hull and Jones, Scientific Exhibits (1961)

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1899: the exhibit begins

Journal of the American Medical Association, June 17, 1899

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1899 – 1945: the exhibit expands

Demonstrating an exhibit, 1935

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Illustration from Hull and Jones, Scientific Exhibits (1961)

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Illustration from Hull and Jones, Scientific Exhibits (1961)

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Demonstrating an exhibit, 1935

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Floor plan for 1925 AMA Scientific Exhibit

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Floor plan for 1925 AMA Scientific Exhibit

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1945 – 1965: the exhibit’s baroque period

Demonstrating an exhibit, 1955

AMA’s Scientific Exhibit, ca. 1960

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Demonstrating an exhibit, 1955

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An audiovisual exhibit, 1962

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A live demonstration, 1962

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Closed-circuit television, 1949

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1965 – 1980: the exhibit in decline

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A young scientist and his poster, 2006

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2006 exhibit award winners at the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists convention

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A PowerPoint template for medical presentations

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1. A lively, interactive pedagogical and probative culture

An interactive exhibit, 1962

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2. Medicine and showmanship

The technical exhibit, 1935

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Floor plan, 1925 AMA Scientific Exhibit

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Illustration from Hull and Jones, Scientific Exhibits (1961)

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3. Palpability and virtuality

A fresh tissue pathology exhibit, 1962

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4. Opening the body to display

Filming an operation, 1953

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