Erica Nam
Professor Vesna
Rui Hu
DESMA 9
10 June 2016
Medicine + Technology + Art (FINAL)
Technology has helped doctors to advance the understanding of the human body as well. Art and the science of medicine are complementary, and physician training would be positively augmented with courses in humanities and the arts in order to learn to creatively address novel medical issues. The invention of X-rays and MRI’s is a great to understand what the doctors are saying. In pursuit of creating art, practitioners have generated tools and techniques that have aided researchers, while sometimes crossing into controversy, such as by releasing invasive species into the environment, blurring the lines between art and modern biology, societal, and environmental issues that challenge scientific thinking.
Not only does this topic cover the human body and look how science, technology has influenced medicine, but how humans are shifting through bio-tech too. It all began with human dissection. Dissection is truly at the intersection of art and science. Leonardo da Vinci performed private studies, in which he dissected human bodies. These formed the basis for his detailed, lifelike, anatomical drawings. He made a significant contribution to social acceptance of the study of the human body. Then, it shifts into looking at the technology progresses from X-rays to CAT scans to MRIs, and how our perception of the body is shifted.
There are different types of medical visualizations, such as X-rays, MRI, and CAT scan. The X-ray was discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen. He was a German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range today known as X-Rays. The first X-ray he ever did was on his wife’s hand. The MRI, which stands for magnetic resonance image was discovered by an American medical practitioner, Raymond Vahan Damadian. He was his first patient but was too big to get in, so a graduate student volunteered to go in first. MRIs use a powerful magnetic field to align the magnetization of some atomic nuclei in the body and radio frequency fields to systematically alter the alignment of this magnetization. It causes the nuclei to produce a rotating magnetic field detectable by a scanner. The information is then recorded to construct an image of the scanned area of the body. CAT scans are X-ray computed tomography. It can be used for medical imaging and industrial imaging methods employing tomography created by computer processing. Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional image of the inside of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis of rotation.
Another important factor of medicine that I learned was the origins of plastic surgery. It is stated that it started because of war. Many people today believe that it started recently. It originated from the East, then to India, and then they studied the skin reconstruction work and moved on to Europe. Plastic does not mean artificial but “plastico” means to give mold or give form. The first plastic surgeon in America was Dr. Montoya. He performed the first cleft palate with instruments that he had designed himself.
Another famous person was Andreas Vesalius, a flemish anatomist, a physician and author of one of the most influential books in the medical history. The book, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, is about the human anatomy and was published in 1543. It was the turning point in the history of modern medicine. It was the first time the treatment of the disease was understood to be rigid and accurate representation of the human body inside and out. Vesalius is referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was the first to provide accurate description of the internal structures of the work of the human bodies. Thanks to him, it revived the scientific method for studying the human anatomy.
Another famous person was Andreas Vesalius, a flemish anatomist, a physician and author of one of the most influential books in the medical history. The book, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, is about the human anatomy and was published in 1543. It was the turning point in the history of modern medicine. It was the first time the treatment of the disease was understood to be rigid and accurate representation of the human body inside and out. Vesalius is referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was the first to provide accurate description of the internal structures of the work of the human bodies. Thanks to him, it revived the scientific method for studying the human anatomy.
The artist that caught my attention was Virgil Wong. He is studying the health implications of The Proteus Effect, which describes how people’s actual behavior can be affected by their use of a digital persona. In his current study, Virgil created an iPad app that generates medical avatars of smokers personalized to match their appearance and body type. The app creates “time travel” simulations that show study participants the immediate and long-term impact of smoking on both their face and their bodies from the inside out. The effects of quitting smoking are also illustrated. Virgil uses the correlation of art and medicine in order to educate about the risks of smoking.
He is a creator of the “Medical Avatar.” In the TedTalk, he talks about how when he was young, he was obsessed with a Helen Keller biography and wanted to experience how it felt to be blind, so he blindfolded himself for a week. This led to serious injuries that consisted of mild concussion, broken nose, broken tooth, and a doctor’s note that read, “Why was this kid pretending to be blind? Possible psychiatric issues.” He says he remembers opening his eyes again and not just thinking about how vibrant the world was, but there’s still so much that he couldn’t see and how much under the surface and under the skin that he wanted to investigate. He fell in love with art technology because it was the tool that allowed him to study the world and helped understand the world even better. His mother started losing her vision and was soon diagnosed with a brain tumor, and he felt so frustrated and sorry because he wasn’t able to go to medical school. But his mom looked at him and told him, “medicine helps us live longer lives, but art is about why we live. Always be proud of being an artist as you would a doctor.”
As an artist, he started creating these portraits various individuals where you can literally see your bodies from inside out. It's an art form that allows you to visualize your health information in past, present and future. It's a way that would help people understand and manage their health care in a super easy and visual way that could've helped out his mom. He is also working on creating merged medical portraits of difference people. He interviewed a patient who was a veteran and was being treated for a horrific war injury. Through this experience, he said that he learned that it's so important to know that he's not the only with this injury and that it's nice to know that there are other people going through the same issues as he was. What he is trying to do with this Medical Avatar is to find a way for medical patients to be able to connect and relate to one another. Technology could be a way to better understand our differences. Through his work, he truly wants people to see and experience how it feels to be sick or blind.
In my opinion, I truly enjoyed researching about Virgil Wong, because he gave me a new insight on medicine and art. He helped me further my knowledge about the correlation between them. His inventions are magnificent and I truly believe that they will make a huge impact in life.
Future medical technology breakthroughs will build from the incredible progress made in nanotechnology, biotechnology, computers, the information learned from deciphering the human genome and other scientific areas. There is a major health crisis today in terms of the shortage of organs. The fact is that we’re living longer and medicine has done a much better job making us live longer and the problem is as we age, our organs tend to fail more. Currently, there are not enough organs to go around. In the last 10 years, the number of patients that require organs have doubled. This is a public health crisis. There are many futuristic medical devices and technologies that are in development or are predicted. For example, medical robots can be an invention that will make a huge impact. They will be able to patrol hospital hallways on more routine rounds, checking on patients in different rooms and managing their individual charts and vital signs without direct human intervention. The device can be a mobile cart with a two way video screen and medical monitoring equipment, programmed to maneuver through the busy halls of a hospital.
Another help invention in the medical field is needle free diabetes care. Self care is a pain because it brings the constant need to draw blood for glucose testing, the need for daily insulin shots and the heightened risk of infection from all that poking. Continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps are today's best options for automating most of the complicated daily process of blood sugar management. The sensor collected one reading per minute and sends the data wirelessly to a remote monitor, triggering audible alarms when levels go out of the patient's optimal range and tracking glucose levels over time.
In the future, I truly hope that we are able to find a cure to cancer. Beyond chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, doctors are uncovering new ways to harness the power of the patient's immune system to combat cancer. I strongly believe that we are advanced enough to find a cure. In a Tedtalk, Siddartha Mukherjee talks about how we think about diseases in a short term: Have disease -> take pill -> kill something. He discusses how instead of it being a mechanical or chemical problem, maybe it's a stem cell problem. Through these inventions, the world will advance tremendously and unfold many new discoveries along the way.
In my opinion, I truly enjoyed researching about Virgil Wong, because he gave me a new insight on medicine and art. He helped me further my knowledge about the correlation between them. His inventions are magnificent and I truly believe that they will make a huge impact in life.
Another help invention in the medical field is needle free diabetes care. Self care is a pain because it brings the constant need to draw blood for glucose testing, the need for daily insulin shots and the heightened risk of infection from all that poking. Continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps are today's best options for automating most of the complicated daily process of blood sugar management. The sensor collected one reading per minute and sends the data wirelessly to a remote monitor, triggering audible alarms when levels go out of the patient's optimal range and tracking glucose levels over time.
In the future, I truly hope that we are able to find a cure to cancer. Beyond chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, doctors are uncovering new ways to harness the power of the patient's immune system to combat cancer. I strongly believe that we are advanced enough to find a cure. In a Tedtalk, Siddartha Mukherjee talks about how we think about diseases in a short term: Have disease -> take pill -> kill something. He discusses how instead of it being a mechanical or chemical problem, maybe it's a stem cell problem. Through these inventions, the world will advance tremendously and unfold many new discoveries along the way.
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