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Week 4: MedTech+Art

When I saw this weeks topic I was confused on how Medicine and Art correlate. I then thought about the time I got my finger scanned to check and see if it was broken and I remembered the images. The technology was able to show a picture of my bone, I found this interesting. It was not until completing this weeks readings and videos that I learned more about the connection between the two.

X-Ray 

The new technologies give scientist the ability to identify all new types of genes and DNA as well as give them a visual (Ingber). We are able to see what is going on inside the human body and develop new cures. The images get microscopic imaging and can even show density. After reading, "The Hippocratic Oath Today" by Peter-Tyson, the section labeled the modern version expresses that they will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science. I agree because when I was explaining earlier about my X-Ray I was thinking about what what Casini had said about MRI. The MRI scans a portrait of the human being; my X-Ray gave an image of my hand. Art correlates with medicine because they present an image with multiple meanings and the outcome depends on the person who is looking at the image.

Brain Image with Color(ART)

We also learned about plastic surgery and the procedures people undertake in order to match beauty or the look they want. I disagree with the use of surgery and medical advancements to enhance a persons appearance just for fun. The silicon and practice is very dangerous in my eyes. I see it as art being used as a negative. The body out of its natural form is reckless and looses the originality it came to the world with. Medicine and art are one in the same and I learned that this week. I learned that medicine creates a different form of art for science.

Body Image

Plastic Surgery

Bibliography

Vesna, Victoria. “Http://www.youtube.com/v/Ep0M2bOM9Tk.” Lecture. Medicine pt1 . Youtube, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 23 April, 2016. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk>

Vesna, Victoria. “Http://www.youtube.com/v/FIX-9mXd3Y4.” Lecture. Medicine pt3. Youtube, 22 Apr. 2012. Web. 23 April, 2016. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX-9mXd3Y4>.

Casini, Silvia. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations Between Science and Arts.” (n.d.): n. pag. Web. 23 April, 2016.

Tyson, Peter. “The Hippocratic Oath Today.” PBS. PBS, 27 Mar. 2001. Web. 23 April, 2016.<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/hippocratic-oath-today.html>.

Ingber, Donald. "The Architecture of Life."Jan 1998. Web23 April, 2016.<5-ingber_architecture-of-life.pdf>

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