RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Seeing illness in art and medicine: a patient and printmaker collaboration
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 155
OP 159
DO 10.1136/medhum-2015-010838
VO 42
IS 3
A1 Devan Stahl
A1 Darian Goldin Stahl
YR 2016
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/42/3/155.abstract
AB For many patients, viewing one's illness through medical imaging technology can be an unsettling experience. Patients are likely not to see themselves represented in medical images and may find it difficult to reconcile this new image with their own body image. In this article, a patient with multiple sclerosis and a printmaker describe a collaborative project they have developed, wherein the patient's medical images are incorporated into pieces of fine art. The aim of the project is to open up the interpretation of the ill-body to persons outside the medical field, so as to do justice to the multiple dimensions of the body chronically ill persons often inhabit.