A Guide to Medical Photography

The entire practice of medical photography and medical The text has wisely been shorn of details that are to be illustration as we know it today may be said to have been found in general photographic textbooks. Instead it leads pioneered over the last quarter of a century. During this the reader to consider in broad terms not only the special span much progress has been made in the establishment techniques peculiar to the subject, but also to accept of standards, qualifications and codes of practice in one lessons that are available for the taking from other estab­ country or another, but by virtue of the compact nature of lished spheres of photography. It attempts to be an in­ the specialty few authoritative texts on the subject have tensely practical book and at all times the would-be emerged. practitioner is encouraged to experiment with the object This entirely new collective work, coming in the first in­ of developing his own techniques and general approach stance from Europe in translation, but containing addi­ to the subject. All this is reinforced by a wealth of specially tional contributions from the United Kingdom and the prepared diagrams to illustrate set-ups and lighting tech­ United States of America, must be welcome in these niques as well as carefully posed examples of a variety of changing times to those embarking on medical photog­ clinical material, mostly in full colour.