An Eakins masterpiece restored : seeing The Gross Clinic anew / edited by Kathleen A. Foster, Mark S. Tucker ; with essays by Steven Conn, Kathleen A. Foster, Mark S. Schreiner, MD, Mark S. Tucker.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-167) and index.

Introduction: studying The Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker -- Local hero: The Gross Clinic and our sense of civic identity / Steven Conn -- Eakins as witness: the birth of modern surgery, 1844-89 / Mark S. Schreiner, MD -- A portrait of ambition: Eakins, The Gross Clinic, and the American Centennial / Kathleen A. Foster -- The making of The Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker -- The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia and New York, 1875-79 / Kathleen A. Foster -- The challenge revisited: The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster -- The changing painting: The Gross Clinic in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries / Mark S. Tucker -- Conclusion: "then and now" / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker -- Appendix: Commentary on The Gross Clinic, 1875-1917.