Flash: Opposites, 2020 by Anne Lindberg.

Art is integrated into the Mayo Clinic environment. Since the original Mayo Clinic Building was finished in 1914, many pieces have been donated or commissioned for patients and staff to enjoy. Each issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings features a work of art (as interpreted by the author) that is displayed in a building or on the grounds of Mayo Clinic campuses.

Umbra RM8, 2013 by Laura Crehuet Berman.

Art is integrated into the Mayo Clinic environment. Since the original Mayo Clinic Building was finished in 1914, many pieces have been donated or commissioned for patients and staff to enjoy. Each issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings features a work of art (as interpreted by the author) that is displayed in a building or on the grounds of Mayo Clinic campuses.

Fritz Kahn and the Centenary of The Doctor of the Future.

This JAMA Arts and Medicine feature describes ways in which Fritz Kahn shared a prescient and nuanced vision of technology's role in the patient-physician interaction, a topic of continued interest and relevance today, through his illustrations.

Art under the Microscope.

In March 2018, Greece issued five commemorative stamps that show a beautiful mélange of art and science. Images are, however, genuine views captured through light microscopy of stained human tissue during histopathological examination. Many will remember having drawn such diagrams in their histology and pathology journals during their medical school years. The microscopic images are photographed beautifully by Dr Maria Lambropaulou. She is an Associate Professor of Histology-embryology at the Medical Department of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

Understanding Breast Cancer Images in Art History as a Form of Health Communication.

Can art and visual images meant for public consumption (museums, galleries, social media platforms) serve as a critical form of health communication for breast cancer patients? For their clinicians? For the population at large? Art history research methods are applied to a range of breast cancer images in western art in order to understand what the images communicate to us about patient experience, agency, and inequity in health care at the time of their construction. The following is a selective look at western art as it reflects and informs our understanding of breast cancer over time.

A depiction of poliomyelitis in a 17th -century Piedmontese fresco?

INTRODUCTION: A potential representation of poliomyelitis is investigated in an Italian artwork. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A 17th century Piedmontese fresco is analyzed by combining historico-medical, palaeopathological and clinical approaches. Alternative diagnoses are considered. RESULTS, DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: The man appearing in the fresco holding a crutch is characterized by an atrophic left leg reminiscent of poliomyelitic atrophic. Other congenital anomalies or cerebrovascular causes appear less likely. A reflection on the difficulty of retrospectively diagnosis poliomyelitis is offered.

The Pellagra Portraits.

This Arts and Medicine feature reviews the history of pellagra and recounts the role of artist and illustrator John Carroll who, in 1919, painted portraits of people with the vitamin deficiency to document in color the appearance of pellagra skin plaques.

Imágenes digitales del cerebro en la década de 1970: la construcción de una tecnología híbrida / Digital brain imaging in the 1970s building a hybrid technology

La tomografía computarizada (TC), una tecnología basada en la combinación de radiología y computación, fue utilizada para la exploración de un tumor cerebral en una paciente de un hospital de Londres en 1971. La cabeza de la persona se introdujo en un escáner, fabricado por la empresa discográfica británica EMI, para medir la cantidad de radiación absorbida por los diferentes puntos del cerebro. La imagen confeccionada constaba de una matriz tonal digital que se materializó en papel prensa, en tubo de rayos catódicos y en una fotografía Polaroid. En este artículo se mostrará el proceso de producción de la imagen TC, una representación visual que se convertiría, a partir de la década de 1970, en una tecnología habitual para las neurociencias contemporáneas, además de paradigma de representación visual en el tránsito de lo analógico a lo digital. Para ello analizaremos las implicaciones de la imagen radiográfica, inventada en un momento de auge de la imagen-movimiento, donde se enmarcan las cronofotografías, las secuencias de imágenes y la cinematografía. En este análisis haremos hincapié en los diferentes regímenes escópicos donde se encuentran cada una de las imágenes. El conocimiento, que llevó a la construcción del dispositivo, circuló entre la clínica, la industria y el laboratorio. En la construcción de las TC participaron una diversidad de agentes, incluida la computadora, la radiación por rayos X, un equipo de ingenieros electrónicos, un grupo de neurorradiólogos del Hospital Atkinson Marley y el escáner de rayos X, entre otros. Además, veremos la repercusión de varios factores vinculados a la epistemología de la imagen TC, como lo concerniente al reforzamiento clínico en el diagnóstico clínico, la vinculación de lo morfológico a lo psíquico en relación al cerebro y el tránsito de la imagen-movimiento a la imagen-tiempo. (AU)

Computed tomography (CT), a technology based on the combination of radiology and computation, was used to scan a patient’s brain tumor in a London hospital in 1972. The patient’s head was introduced into a scanner, manufactured by the British record company EMI, to measure the amount of radiation absorbed by different points in the brain. The resulting image consisted of a digital tonal matrix that was materialized on newsprint, a cathode ray tube, and a Polaroid photograph. This article describes the production process of the CT image, a visual representation that would become, from the 1970s onwards, a common technology for contemporary neurosciences and a paradigm of visual representation in the transition from analog to digital. To this end, we analyze the implications of the radiographic image, invented at a time of the rise of theimage-movement in which chronophotographs, image sequences, and cinematography are framed. In this analysis, we focus on the scopic regime in which each image is found. The knowledge that led to construction of the device circulated between the clinic, industry, and laboratory. A variety of agents were involved in the construction of CT scans, including the computer, X-ray radiation, a team of electronic engineers, a group of neuroradiologists from Atkinson Marley Hospital, and the X-ray scanner, among others. We also report on the impact of several factors associated with the epistemology of CT imaging, such as the reinforcement of clinical diagnoses, the linking of the morphological to the psychic in relation to the brain, and the transition from image-motion to image-time. (AU)

A damned soul with goiter. "The life of Christ" (c. 1480) by Giovanni Martino Spanzotti.

The church of San Bernardino in Ivrea (Piedmont) houses a cycle of frescoes of "The Life of Christ" by the Italian painter Giovanni Martino Spanzotti. In the painting, a damned soul of the Hell with a large bi-lobar goiter is represented, confirming the interest of Renaissance artists towards thyroid diseases.

Differential diagnosis of a thyroid mass, facial malar rash and ptosis on the flora in the primavera by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510).

PURPOSE: The Primavera is considered amongst the greatest and controversial artistic masterpieces worldwide painted by renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. The aim was to identify any underlying medical foundations for the painting. METHODS: Observational study. RESULTS: The painting reveals, a 'butterfly' malar rash, bilateral ptosis and a clear neck swelling consistent with a goitre in the figure of Flora. This could be explained by concomitant Graves' disease and systemic lupus erythematosus, or other presentations of multiple autoimmune syndrome. CONCLUSION: These findings highlight the likely presentation of the earliest pictorial depictions of thyroid disease with systemic lupus erythematosus and emphasize the exactitude of depiction demonstrated by Botticelli in renaissance era.