title: [Photography as analysis document, body and medicine: theory, method and criticism--the experience of Museo Nacional de Medicina Enrique Laval].
abstract: This article is an experimental methodological reflection on the use of medical images as useful documents for constructing the history of medicine. A method is used that is based on guidelines or analysis topics that include different ways of viewing documents, from aesthetic, technical, social and political theories to historical and medical thinking. Some exercises are also included that enhance the proposal for the reader: rediscovering the worlds in society that harbor these medical photographical archives to obtain a new theoretical approach to the construction of the history of medical science.
authors.affiliation: Museo Nacional de Medicina Enrique Laval, Facultad de Medicina/Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. cleytonr@med.uchile.cl
authors.forename: César Leyton
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: Andrés Díaz
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Caballero
mesh_terms: D002677:Chile; D004282:Documentation / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009144:Museums; D010781:Photography / Q000266:history*; D011329:Prisoners / Q000266:history; D012923:Social Class