Ep 60 - Memento Mori - Victorian Death Photography & The Mütter Museum’s Medical Mysteries

This episode explores a favorite topic of our hosts with two examples of memento mori -- Victorian death photography and the medical mysteries of The Mütter Museum.

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCtter_Museum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dent_Mutter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Inconnue_de_la_Seine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_photography

New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/health/11swallow.html

College of Physicians 

https://histmed.collegeofphysicians.org/dead-and-unburied-the-hyrtl-skulls/

Hekint

https://hekint.org/2017/01/22/thomas-dent-mutter-innovative-surgeon-and-teacher/

Mutter Museum

http://muttermuseum.org/about/faq/

College of Physicians

https://collegeofphysicians.org/mutter-museum

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7riwDPlEAM

BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150629-the-intriguing-history-of-ghost-photography

All That’s Interesting

https://allthatsinteresting.com/victorian-death-photos

National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/160211-victorian-hair-art-work-jewelry-death-history

University of Washington

https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2013-04/remembrance-photographys-role-grieving

Smithsonian Mag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-einsteins-brain-ended-mutter-museum-philadelphia-180954987/

The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/pictures-of-death/534060/

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