CLAS 3239 | Ancient Medicine: The Classical Roots of the Medical Humanities: Contemporary Reception of Ancient Ars Medica

Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column 1944
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
© Banco de México and INBAL Mexico, 2004

Composite image: drawing with 3D spiral CT scan. From the artist's 'Nerve pathways: brain to body' series. Used with permission of the artist.

Illustration from the artist's 'visible skeleton' series. Used with permission of the artist.

Photomicrograph layered with floating colors. From the artist's 'Inner space' series. Used with permission of the artist.

Image from the artist's 'drawing from medical images' series. Used with permission of the artist.

Poster showing blue background with a man-like creature covered with rats and flies, which represent biological warfare. Captions condemn the United States for using biological warfare in Northeast China and Korea's disregard of international sanction. Zhongguo : bu xiang, 1952?]
Also in book: Hidden treasure / edited by Michael Sappol. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Blast Books, 2012.
Accession number: 06-08.

"Medicine (1900-1907). Oil on canvas - Destroyed in 1945 at Schloss Immendorf, a castle in lower Austria. Klimt's Medicine with the figure of Hygeia, daughter of Asclepius. Klimt with traditional a snake and cup of Lethe. Above Hygeia is a large column of light, and on either side nude figures and a skeleton. Klimt received critical reactions from doctors for this "lurid, almost pornographic depiction." The implicit suggestion that the healing arts were unable to prevent death was also unpopular.

Print illustration by graphic design artist Andy Pitts parodying the outdated 'science' of phrenology.