Sex Lives of Animals without Backbones III

Love in the Scoliosis Clinic, 1971*, reproduced 2019, dye sublimation print on ceramic tiles, grout, resin.

Post-Op Portrait, 1931*, reproduced 2019

Sodium Amytal— Blue Heavens (barbiturate used as an early truth serum) found in medic’s first aid kit, used c. 1940, photographed 2018

Clinical Photograph Illustrating Spinal Curvature, 1962*, reproduced 2019

Earthworms have five Hearts and no Backbone, 2017, dye sublimation print on ceramic tiles, grout, resin.

Cutler-Robinson Apparatus for Inducing Pneumothorax in Tuberculosis Patients, 2018

Daphnia Magna— Advantageous Experimental Organisms, 2019

Clinical Photograph Illustrating Spinal Curvature, 1987*
Reproduced 2019, dye sublimation print on ceramic tiles, grout, resin.

Diagnostic Image, 1954*
Reproduced 2019

Object in Central Image found in the Collection of Dr. Ellen Cook Jacobsen, the first female instructor of the Dept. of Med. at SUNY Upstate Medical University, 2019

Glass Syringe from doctor’s bag c. 1970
2018

Dissection of a Frog, 2017
Dye sublimation print on ceramic tiles, grout, resin.
* Clinical photographs and access to artifacts from The Archives and Special Collections at SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Health Sciences Library with particular gratitude to Nicole Topich and Cara Howe.