Week 4: Art and MedTech

Week 4: Medicine+ Technology + art 


My initial impression is that there isn't much art within medicine and that other than a certain finesse that is needed for surgery and other techniques. Which in a way is an art form but more so a practice simlar to brick laying or other trivial pursuits. 

But on second thought there is a large part of medicine that includes art whether it be in the anatomy diagrams in the books or the depitictions of certain diseases. It seems there is a place for art in everything we do.


Vesna brings up how the human body is the primary fascination in both art and Medicine and this is a beautifully illustrated connection. As Art is attempting to fully capture and imitate the human body that the universe has created. This is the same case with medicine as it is an attempt to salvage the body and or repair this divine creation. 



“Under the Skin: Drawing Anatomy: Getty360 Calendar.” The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles, 12 Mar. 2022, www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/anatomy_drawing.html.

Another interesting intersection between the human body and art is that of tattoos. One of the most popular and feasible jobs for artists is a tattoo artist and this is because of the human obsession with the body and wanting to keep permanent art on them at all times. 

Ocregister, www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/WomenofCoast-MediaKit4-24-19.pdf. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024. 


Shieldsquare Captcha, hcvalidate.perfdrive.com/fb803c746e9148689b3984a31fccd902//?ssa=fc3b0029-fcb5-42be-b496-aff1975cafae&ssb=68930290175&ssc=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/347/1/012076/meta&ssi=852806d9-8427-4702-a986-4416d78ec53b&ssk=support@shieldsquare.com&ssm=49409984682577183108329186387255&ssn=fb1d0a448e7a70aaba27e49e76d71d71b9034319762a-2e54-45e9-9ad537&sso=b75a20c8-43024f14fbac6b2eb10d32f50e487a108ee05a6ce5ec0411&ssp=53869627131676944377167692197371836&ssq=83116249007717294401590077797714260143474&ssr=NS4xNjEuMTQ4LjE2NQ==&sst=Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/84.0.4147.105+Safari/537.36&ssv=&ssw=&ssx=W10=. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024. 


    The final connection I learned about was X-rays. A fairly common practice that is used in medicine, airports, and art conservation. These images seen in offices of dentists and regular physicians are art in themselves where as in places like airports they are less so. I believe that X-rays of objects are less so art than those of humans yet both are a creative practice. X-rays have a very necessary use for art and older paintings as they allow for accurate repairs and studies. 


    Tyson, Peter. “The Hippocratic Oath Today.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 27 Mar. 2001,www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/hippocratic-oath-today/. 

    Tattoos in Medicine, scholarlycommons.hcahealthcare.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1397&context=healthcarejournal. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024. 

    Langley, Allison, and Kimberley Muir. “X-Rays: Peering over the Artist’s Shoulder.” The Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2 Nov. 2021, www.artic.edu/articles/949/x-rays-peering-over-the-artist-s-shoulder. 

    “The Institute for Arts in Medicine (I_AM).” The Institute for Arts in Medicine IAM, sites.usc.edu/artsinmed/. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024. 

    Rhodes, Margaret. “The Man behind the Unexpected Beauty of Gray’s Anatomy.” Wired, Conde Nast, 20 Apr. 2016, www.wired.com/2016/04/man-behind-unexpected-beauty-grays-anatomy/. 

    “The Getty Research Institute.” Getty Research Institute, www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/anatomy/. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024. 

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