. . . ..in a book!
(*that is the stupidest thing i've ever said*)
Anyway, here there be dragons. 'N'stuff. 'N'joy.
Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. Doctor Mütter's Marvels. Garden City, NY: Avery, 2014.
Bates, A. W. Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2005.
French, Renée. "Objects from Dr. Chevalier Jackson's Foreign Body Collection." The Ganzfeld 3, Winter 2003: 88-95.
Gould, George M., and Walter L. Pyle. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine. New York: The Julian Press, 1956.
Howell, Michael, and Peter Ford. The True History of The Elephant Man. New York: Penguin Books, 1980.
Leroi, Armand Marie. Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
Montagu, Ashley. The Elephant Man: A Study In Human Dignity. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971.
Paré, Ambroise. Des monstres et prodiges. Ed. Jean Ceard. Geneva: Droz, 1971.
————————. On Monsters and Marvels. Ed. Janis L. Pallister. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Purcell, Rosamond. Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997.
Quigley, Christine. Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 1998.
Stone, Judith. "The Mütter of All Museums." Discover, January 1992: 14-18.
Thijsen, Mirelle. Grotesque: Natural Historical & Formaldehyde Photography. Trans. Michael Gibbs and Edith de Boer. Amsterdam: Fragment, 1989.
Thompson, C. J. S. The History and Lore of Freaks. London: Random House, 1996.
Wilson, Gahan, ed. The Big Book of Freaks. New York: Paradox Press, 1996.
Wynbrandt, James, and Mark D. Ludman. The Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects. New York: Facts on File, 1991.
And then there are a few webpages I have neglected to link elsewhere
Freaks @ SNOT.com
Formaldehyde babies from Holland @ rotten.com
EXTREME BIRTH DEFORMITIES caused by U.S. gov't complacency.
The Mütter Museum
And finally, special thanks to James Paterson for featuring my work on Half Empty!
Official Page
@ Roadside America
@ FieldTrip.com
by Mark Hanford
an article in the Philadelphia Business Journal