Images of Surgery
Images of Surgery is a curious site with a slew of historic and contemporary photographs and (sometimes bizarre) photo illustrations documenting surgery. The site is run by Alfred Feingold, MD, a retired anesthesiologist who has spent a decade taking photos in the operating room. From the site:
We refer to the operating room as the “operating theatre” for good reason. The surgeon has the leading role and personifies the heroic theme of the story. The nurses and the anesthesiologist play supporting roles. The audience, for whom the performance has been commissioned, lies motionless and without expression under the stupor of anesthesia.Link (Thanks, Mark Dery!)
With the audience asleep, the players take turns as protagonist and foil. The play lasts from several minutes to many hours. The form of the play varies from comedy to drama to tragedy. The complex colors and contours of human anatomy appear detached from the cold and aseptic landscape of the room. Bodies are shrouded with sheets and gowns. Lips and nostrils are covered with angular masks. The stage is dim except for the clusters of celestial lights illuminating the palette of vital colors and the learned hands of the surgeon. The visual story of the ongoing drama is told through the focus of the eyes, the twisting of hands, the contortion of bodies, and the reflections from metallic instruments. The surgeon cautiously probes the body’s inner fabric with wonder and admiration.
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The surgeons peel off their own skin without anesthesia, and then perform surgery?!
ugh. Unicorn chaser, stat!
Seriously, surgery photos and videos (especially the ones with the jell-o sounds of squishing organs and ...stuff) really make me hurl. And get all nauseous and I turn green. Same thing with needles. Ugh. Yet oddly, in real life, that stuff does not bother me so much.
My favorite one is the Escher hands operating on each other.
@#2 gandalf23: I'll second that call for a Unicorn chaser. Gahh, I nearly tossed my cookies. Quite literally, in fact, as I just finished eating two chocolate chip cookies.
I hate flipping around channels then coming to TLC, Discovery Health or Dr. 90210 and getting a flash of someone getting their sternum buzz-sawed in half or a close-up of an unidentified part of the body being held open with clamps, much like the image above. The insides of my body should remain just that: Inside my body!
#2 & #4 Perhaps one of the following is a safer alternative:
http://boardgamecentral.com/games/operation.html
who owns the rights to photographs of your organs? Should you get royalties?
who owns the rights to photographs of your organs?
Are the photos taken from public property?
depends,who's renting the operating room?