Rehman Teaching Slide Library

The images in this collection were collected over the long career of Irving Rehman, Ph.D., who taught anatomy as a faculty member at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine, at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, and at Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles where he last used the collection for residency training. The original collection consisted of 16,000 photographs and illustrations of human anatomy dissections maintained in 3-ring binders. Some of those images are 35 mm slides, and others are photographic plates printed on paper. Dr. Rehman photographed dissections of fresh cadavers while a former Deputy Coroner and Forensic Anatomist with the Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner. Since these dissections were performed on cadavers before embalming, the color is much more realistic than in a typical dissected image. During his years in San Diego, Dr. Rehman hired Helen Barker to draw anatomical illustrations, which are included in this collection. The images focus on anatomical areas of interest to an orthopaedic surgeon. Chadwick F. Smith, M.D., an orthopaedic surgeon, collaborated with Dr. Rehman for many years in using these images for training materials for orthopaedic residents and others. Dr. Smith adds the orthopaedic surgeon perspective to the collection.

本数据集收录的影像均采集自欧文·雷曼（Irving Rehman）博士漫长的职业生涯历程。雷曼博士曾以教职员工身份先后于南加州大学（University of Southern California, USC）医学院、圣地亚哥海军医学中心及洛杉矶骨科医院讲授解剖学，其最后一次将该馆藏用于住院医师培训的地点正是洛杉矶骨科医院。原始馆藏包含16000张人体解剖标本的照片与插画，收纳于三环活页夹中。其中部分影像为35毫米幻灯片，其余为印制在相纸上的照相底版。雷曼博士在担任洛杉矶县验尸官办公室副验尸官兼法医解剖学家期间，拍摄了大量新鲜尸体的解剖标本影像。由于这些解剖操作均在尸体防腐处理前完成，其色彩还原度远高于常规解剖标本影像。在圣地亚哥任职期间，雷曼博士聘请海伦·巴克（Helen Barker）绘制解剖插画，相关作品亦被收录至本数据集。本数据集的影像聚焦于骨科医师关注的解剖学区域。骨科医师乍得·F·史密斯（Chadwick F. Smith, M.D.）曾与雷曼博士合作多年，将这些影像用于骨科住院医师及其他相关人员的培训材料。史密斯博士为该馆藏增添了骨科医师的专业视角。