Drawing Damaged Bodies: British Medical Art in the Early Twentieth Century.

Drawing Damaged Bodies: British Medical Art in the Early Twentieth Century. Bull Hist Med. 2018;92(3):439-473 Authors: Alberti SJ Abstract Historians are acutely aware of the role of art in medicine. Elaborate early modern works catch our eye; technical innovations attract analysis. This paper beats a different path by examining three little-known artists in early twentieth-century Britain who deployed what may seem like an outdated method: drawing. Locating the function of pencil and ink illustrations across a range of sites, we take a journey from the exterior of the living patient via invasive surgical operations to the bodily interior. We see the enduring importance of delineation against a backdrop of the mechanization of conflict and of imaging. PMID: 30369499 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Medical History - Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: research