Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Asking for book recommendations on specific topics or periods of history
Newly published books and articles you're dying to read
Recent book releases, old book reviews, reading recommendations, or just talking about what you're reading now
Historiographical discussions, debates, and disputes
...And so on!
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
I've had a chance to sit down with the first two volumes of Stanley B. Burns' Sleeping Beauty series covering (largely American) postmortem photography from the 1840s through the 1950s -- I have some of the Burns Archive's other books to check out soon, and if they're anything like the selections in Sleeping Beauty I have a lot to look forward to. If you're interested in a serious and somber look at postmortem memorial photography, as well as resources for distinguishing real postmortem photos from modern fakes or photographs of living people in awkward poses, these books are well worth a read.
Does anyone have recs for medical history reading, especially reading that deals with the history of medical specimens/medical photography/museums and wunderkammern?