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Morbid Anatomy
Thanks for the shout-out, Cate. If your appetite for anatomical grotesquerie has been whetted, check out Bioephemera’s fascinating post on late-18th-century obstetrical models, which, as she describes them, “represent women simultaneously as ideals of graceful femininity and as puzzle boxes of removable parts” (a nice tie-in to your recent Barbie-cam post as well):
http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2008/02/wombs_waxes_and_wonder_cabin...
You can also find a vast collection of eerie anatomical images at the Morbid Anatomy blog’s flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/astropop/collections/72157601772904023/