The Physician's Art
Subtitle: Representations of Art and Medicine (Duke University Museum of Art)
Contributors: Suzanne Porter (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780967294605
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; History of medicine; Iconography, subjects depicted in art; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Atlases; Anatomy; Medical; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - General; Exhibitions; History; MEDICINE& MEDICAL HUMANITIES; cloth; Reference; Medical illustration
Description: "The Physician's Art presents a perspective on the collaboration of physicians and artists through the centuries. It shows us how the practice of medicine and our understanding of disease and the human body have gone hand in hand with the development of techniques in art, combined with such inventions as the camera and the microscope."--BOOK JACKET.