MedTech and Art
Medically correct representations of the human body are both important for doctors and artists alike. Over time, medical technology has developed such that it has provided a less invasive route to create accurate anatomical images of the human body. An example of a picture from Anatomy During the Renaissance, which saw the rebirth of science and art in the Western World, accurate depictions of the body began being produced. The only means of producing them however was by slicing corpses, and the primary media for recording the these depictions was on paper. The most prolific example was Anatomy by Henry Gray in 1858, whose images were highly utilized by medical professionals at the time to understand the body and disease as well as artists of the time for anatomical representation. Another example of particularly invasive procedure for medical images was Joseph Jernigan, a murderer from Texas, who’s bo...