Images of the human body generated via X-ray, Ultrasound, MRI, CT, PET, and histology are central to the process of diagnosing most patients, but there is still a great deal of uncertainty that patients face when seeking answers along their medical journey. How else can we engage with and interpret medical images? This project aims to answer this question by investigating patient perspectives of medical images. The ultimate goal of the project is to create an artist book composed of text, image, and drawing. Through the synthesis of patient and physician interviews, image collection, clinical observation, artistic work and reflection, my project aims to bridge the gap between the visual evidence in medical images and the emotional journeys of patients. Semi-structured interviews with both patients and radiologists in nuclear medicine inform the text in the book. Following the interviews, I use my skills as a visual artist to create booklets that serve as both educational, emotional, and exploratory resources for patients, physicians, artists, and the public.
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Scholarly concentration: Medical Humanities and Ethics
Forsman, Tia,
"Seeing and Healing: An Art-Based Examination of the Medical Radiologic Image"
(2020).
Warren Alpert Medical School Academic Symposium.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/1gg7-e918
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Seeing and Healing: An Art-Based Examination of the Medical Radiologic Image
The Warren Alpert Medical School Academic Symposium is an annual event at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University that provides Year II medical students a venue to present their summer research in a poster format. Participation in the Symposium …
