Natalie Lafferty's List: Arts and humanities in medicine

A number of scientists including Postdocs from the College of Life Sciences are involved in the Designs for Life project, which brings together science and art. This project developed new screen prints based on images, data and information from Dundee scientists’ laboratory research. Through a series of public events the project aims to stimulate debate at the confluence of science and visual culture.

Pulse - publishes voices from the heart of medicine. These stories are personal accounts of illness and healing. They aim to foster the humanistic practice of medicine and encourage health care advocacy.

Website for family centred experience program at Michigan Medical School. Select the Interpretive Projects on the left hand side and you will an overview of first year projects where students s come up with a painting, sculpture, video, piece of music reflecting a patient's family's experience and perspective of illness.

Laura Ferguson’s unique visual autobiography, The Visible Skeleton Series, explores issues at the intersection of art and medicine. These multi-layered works on paper are based on actual medical images of the artist’s anatomy, including x-rays and a 3D spiral CT scan. Her drawings go far beyond medical illustration to convey the feeling of inhabiting inner space — kinesthetic, visceral, and emotional — and the way that personal identity and even consciousness are rooted in the experiences of the body.

A site of Georgetown University which looks at patient' experiences expressed through theatre, dance and poetry. The Arts Library tab takes you to examples of poems, art etc.

BMJ Blog on Medical Huumanites

Medical Humanities Blog - A conversation about the intersection between medicine and the arts.

This blog is linked to and is an extension of The NYU School of Medicine medical humanities web site and the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. It is intended to be a forum for scholarly discussion of ongoing projects in medical, nursing, premedical, graduate, and postgraduate education and research that use the humanities, social sciences, and the arts to address current issues in medicine and bioscience– from a variety of perspectives.

Maurice Bernstein's Bioethics Discussion Blog. Dr Bernstein posts a new topic most weeks and also has an ethical issue of the month.

Street Anatomy began as a blog to educate people about the field of medical illustration and slowly evolved into an exploration of how anatomy is portrayed in everything from fine art to advertising. Easy to search for content in different categories and against tags.

Animated CT scans set to music

Uses of literature in medical education

A confluence of topics dealing with mental health, substance abuse, health, public health, Social Work, education, politics, the humanities, and spirituality at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. In short, this blog is devoted to the improvment of the quality of life of human beings in the universe.

Art2Be gives people living with HIV/Aids with a safe space in which to remember, artistically explore and share life experiences and future dreams. Body Mapping Project Kenya builds self-esteem and provides community groups with high-impact tools for awareness campaigns

Angela Palmer's work is largely based on details derived from MRI and CAT scans which I engrave or draw onto multiple sheets of glass, layer upon layer. This technique allows me to use the scientific anatomy of the human body stripped of its recognisable features. Most of my work is based on MRI scans of myself - rebuilding the body, slice by slice, to create a self-portrait. While the works may not be instantly recognisable as a portrait, they are objective representations - removing the familiar to expose the extraordinary architecture of the internal human form.

Patrick Altes is interested in the doctors' struggle with power, science and their own humanity.

Radiologist Kai-hung Fung makes beautiful and informative art from the CT (computed tomography) scans of his patients, digitally manipulating them to look more appealing. His image of the inside of our sinuses won the 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

Bristol medical students art work

Watercolours of ECGs, cell division etc