Week 4: MedTech + Art

For this week, professor talked the topic of medicine is one form of art. The topic is quite interesting because I am a life science student, and I have taken lots of biology classes. Before this week, I’ve never had the idea that medicine is related to art. In the past biology classes, when I learned MIR, x-ray and other technology skills that can depict the anatomy of the human body, I only consider those things as pure science. I never know there are art inside. With the development of technology in the medicine, people can know more inside about human body, and the new technology can bring a new view of art. When people look inside of the body, people can see a beautiful picture of our body. Here is a picture of nervous system.

https://www.reference.com/health/care-nervous-system-1751507e01b6e598

Besides the technology of looking inside of the human body, we can see art in medicine anywhere. Saunders says: “The practice of clinical medicine with its daily judgments is both science and art. In the practice of clinical medicine, the art is not merely art of the medical humanities but is integrated to medicine as an applied science.” Also, Donald E. Ingber explores the architecture of life, and he found human body is use many architecture to build itself. For example, the vertical tensegrity model. Cytoskeletal microfilament stabilize itself through a balance of compression and tension.

The Architecture of Life

S.C. Panda says: “Medicine is both an art and a science. Both are interdependent and inseparable, just like two side of a coin.” The art of medicine is really important because we have to deal with a human being.

Reference 

"How Do You Take Care of Your Nervous System?" Reference. IAC Publishing, n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2017.

              Panda, S.C. "Medicine: Science or Art?" Mens Sana Monographs. Medknow Publications, 2006. Web. 30 Apr. 2017. 
           
           Donald E. Ingber  The Architecture of Life. Scientific American January 1998

  
          Saunders J. The practice of clinical medicine as an art and as a science. Medical Humanities. 2000;26:18–22. Available at:  http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://mhbmjjournalscom/cgi/content/ full/26/01/18 (Date of Access: 18 February 2006) [PubMed]

            William Norman S., editor. Bailey And Love's Short Text Book of Surgery, The Rectum. 24th ed. London: Arnold; pp. 1225–1226.