Week 4: Medicine and Art

Surgeon and Artists -left Surgeon, Right artist. (2010)

My major is Cognitive Science and I will be graduating this spring with a Bachelor in Science. I am very happy of this accomplishment and my ultimate goal is to become a physician. As of right now I am pre med but I really enjoy art and always have. I find science, especially medical science and art to have always coincided. The human body and brain is a type of art. Surgeons have artistic hands, which is why they are able to perform such great surgeries. The process of surgery requires great attention to detail, focus and precision. This is also what a great artist does while creating masterpieces.

Engineers make robotic arm for girl to play violin (2017)

There have been many new technological advances in the field of medicine. One of them is known as the robotic arm. People who suffer from a shortage of a limb could have this surgically implants in them in the place of that limb. This is very beneficial because it allows those people to live their lives normally. They do not have shortages in their ability to do something. It takes time to get used to the arm or leg, but with physical therapy, there are successful outcomes. It’s amazing how this piece of art, this technology can change people’s lives. Technology comes from someone’s imagination of what they aspire in the future. Then these artistic thoughts and ideas become real through science, math and other concrete subjects.

Facial Deformities Framed her Future (2017)

One other example of the two fields coinciding is Harvard medical student who uses visual arts to demystify medicine. She has congenial birth defects and used visual arts and facial features of art to help her through her life. She soon saw a connection of this to medicine and knew she wanted to become a surgeon one day and help students like her. I find the field of medicine to be so fascinating because there is so much depth in it. But there is also a great deal of artistic input in this field as well that many don’t think about or see. This is why I hope to be a part of two of the things I love, medicine and art.

Works Cited:

Barakat, Matthew. "Engineers made robotic arm for this girl to play the violin". New York Post. p, 1-6. April 2017. Web. 

Blackwell, Deborah. "Facial Deformities framed her future". Harvard Gazette. p,1-3. April 2017. Web.

Tricia Ward. "Arts and Medicine. An Interview with Smithsonian Secretary Dr. David Skorton". p, 1-6. April, 2017. Web. 

Vesna, Victoria. Medicine Body Lecture. Video. 26 Oct 2012.

Vesna, Victoria. “Medicine and Art: Part 2.” YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded>.