Medicine + Technology + Art Blog Week 4

The traveling exhibit of body world brings attention to all the natural beauty present in our human bodies. It uses preserved human bodies and a technique called plastination to show what is present underneath our skin. The Hippocratic oath demonstrates this relationship between these three things. Its main principles are to, "treat the sick to the best of one's ability, preserve patient privacy, teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation, and so on"(Rubens).

 I had my own experience with this relationship as I had to receive an MRI to examine if this lump in my neck was a tumor or extra skin. After sitting in a tube feeling like I was in space, the doctors brought up a picture that was of my neck and the regions around it. The picture that appeared before me looked like it could've been some sort of art form if I did not know it was an MRI of my neck. 

These diagrams help educate students, as well as, lead to developments in the study of what they represent. Imaging is huge in all parts of life and is used by artists, technicians, doctors, surgeons, teachers and more. Sylvia Casini's article on MRI's shows this. Use of these images allows for the development and change that we need as the human race grows. 

Works Cited: 

Gannon, Erin. “'Body Worlds' Opens a Window on 'Inner Space'.” OnMilwaukee.com, 18 Jan. 2008, onmilwaukee.com/visitors/articles/bodyworlds.html.

“HOME.” Christophe Luxereau Website : Home, www.luxereau.com/.

“KAC.” KAC, www.ekac.org/.

MRI Knee, www.cedars-sinai.edu/Patients/Programs-and-Services/Imaging-Center/For-Patients/Exams-by-Procedure/MRI/MRI-Knee.aspx.

“The Visible Human Project - Color Cryosections.” U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/photos.html.