Acknowledgements

In the course of pursuing this project, I have received assistance from many institutions and individuals. The project could not proceed without access to their collections, trust, and expertise, so I wish to formally acknowledge the debt of gratitude I owe to the following:

  • Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia

  • Anatomical Museum, University of Edinburgh

  • Dr. Ronald L .A. W. Bleys, Department of Anatomy, Division of Surgical Specialties, University Medical Centre Utrecht

  • The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), whose Alumni Travel Grant enabled me to visit the European collections

  • Simon Chaplin, former senior curator of the Hunterian Museum, now with Wellcome Library

  • Tim Clarke, Jr., and Brian Spatola, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC and Silver Springs

  • Firecracker Films, for including several of my photographs depicting sirenomelia in their film The Mermaid Girl (released in the UK as The Little Mermaid)

  • Peter Heller, for his gracious assistance and introducing me to the beautiful Museum Bleulandinum

  • The Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London

  • Dr. Patrice Josset and the staff of Musée Dupuytren, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris

  • John Le Grand, keeper of the Anatomisch Museum, Groningen, who very generously revealed to me the outstanding and extensive holdings of the Museumdepot, and brought out several specimens which he thought—quite correctly—would interest me

  • Meguro Parasitological Museum, Tokyo

  • Mineshaft magazine

  • Willem Mulder, who offered sage advice, introductions, and kindly spent an afternoon acting as my personal tourguide to the wonderful anatomical collections of Utrecht

  • Kate Kern Mundie, for her unwavering daily devotion and support—and especially for enduring broken elevators in Paris and perilous staircases in Amsterdam despite being 8-months pregnant at the time

  • Il Museo di Storia Naturale—La Specola, Università degli Studi di Firenze

  • Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine, Université René Descartes, Paris

  • Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paléontologie et Anatomie Comparée, Paris

  • Museo di Anatomia Patologica e Paleopatologia, Università di Pisa

  • Museum Bleulandinum, Anatomisch Museum, Functionele Anatomie, Universiteit Utrecht

  • Museum Vrolik, Universiteit van Amsterdam

  • The Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

  • Professor Gianfranco Natale and the staff of Museo di Anatomia Umana, Università di Pisa

  • Dr. Roelof-Jan Oostra, curator of Museum Vrolik, for allowing me to work with that fantastic collection

  • The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, whose 2008 Individual Creative Artists Fellowship provided the financial support that allowed me to continue this work

  • Rosamond Purcell, for her encouragement, advice, good humor, and introduction to Willem Mulder

  • Dr. Reina de Raat, who kindly let me peer into the storage vaults of the Universiteitsmuseum in Utrecht

  • Tom Simonite and New Scientist

  • Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia

  • Gretchen Worden (1947-2004), who opened wide the gates of the Mütter Museum to me in the mid-1990s, and quickly became a friend and avid supporter of my work

  • Brandon Zimmerman, who enabled me to return to The Mütter Museum with my cameras after a 10-year interval