Elementary Clinical Photography

This book provides a valuable resource to biomedical photography students, practioners, and clinicians, featuring a practical guide to equipment selection, standardized techniques and digital workflows in a range of settings as well as the use of photography in various clinical specialties.

This book explains how medical photography is part of the workflow in many specialties: it is needed for registries, to preserve information, for follow up, second opinion and teaching, among others. The book gathers information on this field, providing valuable practical tips for those that have never used photography for medical uses as well as those who use it regularly. Covering specialities ranging from dermatology, plastic surgery, dentistry, ophthalmology and endoscopy to forensic medicine, specimen photography and veterinary medicine, it highlights standardization for each procedure and relevance to ethical, patients’ perception of medical photography, cybersecurity and legal aspects. The book also presents practical sections explaining how to organize a photographic file, coding, reimbursement, compliance, use of social media and preservation as well as in depth concepts on sharp focus on blurred vision. This volume will appeal to all clinicians and practitioners interested in acquiring a high level of technical skill in medical photography.

A convenient guide for practicing clinicians who take clinical photographs for documentation, teaching, publication, and medical-legal purposes. Written by physicians and professional medical photographers, this handbook discusses the equipment, principles, and techniques used to take effective medical photographs. It will equip health care providers with the skills they need to obtain excellent clinical images, reproductions of radiographs, and other data such as ECGs. Comparisons of the various images can be made to determine changes in medical conditions. Beginners and experienced users alike will benefit from chapters pertaining to their specific needs. An important section on Technique by Body Location discusses how to take photographs of all parts of the body. The reader simply turns to the information that describes the technique of the body location of interest, reviews the brief text, intended results, and illustrations which demonstrate the technique, and he/she is equipped to take the photograph. 350 high-quality original line drawings created especially for this book (200 of these are in full color) Includes procedures for operating room photography, medical photojournalism, forensic photography, digital cameras in medical photography, and medical image archival and storage Distinguished teachers, authors, illustrators, and lecturers, in medical photography have contributed their expertise to produce this book

This volume brings together such topics as the history of psychiatry, biomedical ethics in history, military medicine, children, women and changing gender roles in modern medicine, public health history, and a special communication on the history of Canadian hospital workers. Of special note is a paper by internationally renowned historian, Dr Peter L. Twohig, Canadian Research Chair in the History of the Atlantic World at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is well-illustrated with images and diagrams pertaining to the history of medicine.

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.