The Visible Human Project

The starving hunger for artificial portrayal of aliveness, from cave paintings at Lascaux, magnificent marble statue, through Renaissance chiaroscuro to digital 3D, now to lifelike automaton. We highly regard the labors and innovations of those who are able to capture “reality” accurately and convincingly. Although through numerous artistic revolutions of movements, this persistent human passion does not seem to

approach that is essential for their learning. The Anatomy in Clay has the potential to be used for almost every body system covered in Human Anatomy

I am writing to express my appreciation for the cadaver lab experience at the University of Minnesota’s Anatomy Bequest Program. The University of Minnesota has such a large research and medical network capable of doing great things, but allows time for students from other colleges, such as Saint Paul College, to come and participate in an honorable program. This experience has been very humbling, reinforcing, and encouraging to my career goals.

The idea of traveling from the internal to the external is also visible in Synaesthesia (2016),which featured in the Interlude Gallery exhibition Ideally Yes (September, 2016). Here wax and pigment were placed into plastic bags creating a skin-like material that stretched around the screens. A two-channel video work played on the screens. Born from experimentation with materials, this video also examines the artificial materials with which we surround ourselves. Plastic is at once destructive and terrible for our environment, but also possesses strange, artificial skin-like properties. Through the use of a macro lens, Long and Kai Wasikowski captured different movements and processes of the body in minute detail. These parts of the body took

As today’s technology is changing, some of the most major effects of it are superior advances in the medical field. One advance in the medical field is tissue engineering. It is being developed for use in regenerative medicine and soon to be in wider use for other treatments. Tissue engineering’s goal for the future is for the medicine to be able to stimulate other cells around the damage area of the body to get them to grow and produce living tissue (Sciencedaily). Another medical advancement is the monitoring systems and how hospitals can better track for problems and signs of an emergency. This can also help the surgeons decide how to stitch up a patient for best recovery time (Sciencedaily). As technology keeps progressing, another medical advancement is the way surgeons are doing operations. Today, for complex surgeries, surgeons now will get help from the use of a robot for accurate procedures; this will help with the size of the incision and keep the recovery time shorter than during standard surgery.

The human body is often perceived as being a complicated mechanism. Having many different parts that perform specific functions, in order to understand how the body works, it helps to understand how the body is organized. Chapter 2 introduces us to the study of Anatomy. According to Medical News Today, anatomy is the identification and description of the structures of living things.

Did you know that over 40 million people need prosthetics, but only 5% have them. Prosthetics were invented such a prolonged time ago that they do not have a true story on how they were invented. Prosthetics have come a long way, so much that I would like to show you all the ways. In my essay I will advise you about about how technology and science have affected them, If more than just humans can use them, the different types of prosthetics and finally if prosthetics are still needed.

For the past two-hundred years, dissection of the human cadaver has been the gold standard for teaching aspiring medical professionals the networking and layout of the human body. Surprisingly, cadaver usage has had a rather curious history.

Von Hagens displays his plastinates in a manner in which all internal organs, nerves, blood vessels, and bones can be viewed by the public. There

second that goes by, researchers are creating effective ways that can save more American lives. In the world of medicine today, there are many issues in health care we cannot solve. The lack of organs and tissues in America results in patients either dying or being put on waiting lists. There are no guarantees that the organ transplant will get to a person in time. Waiting for a perfect donor can take weeks and sometimes years for some patients. The lack of necessary organs is what has caused this organ transplantation crisis in America. This is what has driven many researchers to develop a new solution called three dimensional bio printing and tissue engineering.

I agree with you that anatomical research is very intriguing. As you mentioned, it deals with a variety of issues and perspectives that can generate perplexing viewpoints. I believe that you and I had a very similar approach to informing physicians or researchers on these topics.

The discovery of anatomical theories allowed for the evolution of medicine rather than suppressing it discoveries to four theories. The anatomy is vast and complex in its workings. The three theories were ingenious for their time but imperfect, ever-changing, creative, and yet represented of its

The session was very informative about how art can be use as a teaching tool in medicine. Before this session, I never thought anatomy images and diagnostic X-rays would be considered as artwork in medicine. I think the thought of strictly labeling certain observations as medicine could impede us from seeing beyond the image. Although the main purpose of X-ray imaging is to reveal the medical condition the patient has, it also holds a story of the patient. I have been told that having a good observing skill would be beneficial to physician-patient interaction but never thought this skill can be practiced through looking at arts. As we looking through a few paintings during this session, I started to have an idea of how this could be done.

I have been tasked with comparing and contrasting two works of art; one visual and one literary, while doing so I will then locate a shared theme in contemporary culture. My visual piece of art will be the sketch of The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo’s sketch of The Vitruvian Man was created around 1487 in his notebooks. For my literary work of art, I chose to work with Andreas Cesalius’ piece called De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (Latin for: On the fabric of the human body in seven books). Andreas Cesalius published his series of books about the human body around 1543. I will continue the comparing and contrasting Da Vinci & Cesalius’ work from the Italian Renaissance and the theme of Anatomy.

Today’s lectures involved those of Mark McCready and Robert Stevenson. Mr. McCready’s lesson was centered around engineering for medicine. Mr. McCready’s presentation gave a very broad overview of the many different ways engineering and medicine are intertwined. Mr. Stevenson’s lecture was about Electrical Engineering, and went into a fair amount of depth on the field that he specializes in, which is imagery. Both lectures gave a fair amount of information, one on a broad spectrum of engineering, and another on a specific part of Electrical engineering.