title: Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons: Medical Photography and Symbolism
author: Stanley B. Burns
description: Stanley B. Burns, MD, a New York City ophthalmologist and clinical professor of medicine and psychiatry, NYU, is an internationally distinguished author, curator, historian, collector, and archivist. In 1977, he founded The Burns Archive with his collection of over 1 million vintage photographs. <br /><br />Elizabeth A. Burns is the creative and operations director of The Burns Archive and Press. She has curated numerous exhibitions and created several books, including Sleeping Beauty II and The Burns Archive Medical Specialty Series.
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  WINDWALKER. Copyright © 2005, 2013 by Natasha Mostert. First edition published
  by Tor, Tom Doherty Associates (USA). Second, revised edition: Portable Magic,
  2013.
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
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  ISBN 978-1-909965-07-2
  
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