Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: X-Ray Photography

  • Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim

    Rebekah AbramovichNew York, United States Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim (1865–1905) opened California’s first X-ray photography laboratory in 1896, merely one year after Roentgen’s discovery. Over the course of the next decade, this unlikely figure would become one of the most respected radiographers of those pioneering years. She was born in 1865 in El Dorado County, California, one…

  • X-ray art

    Byung Kook KwakChung-Ang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea A radiologist uses medical imaging instruments to peer inside the human body in the search of abnormality, but the product of medical imaging, the x-ray, is also a form of photography. Like light, x-rays inherently sensitize a film or plate. As the x-ray penetrates an object, it transfers…