Morbid Anatomy on Display
July 6th, 2010 § 1 Comment
"Venus Endormie". Photo © Joanna Ebenstein
A selection of Joanna Ebenstein’s photos of medical museum artifacts are on display over at the American Medical News website.
Joanna is a graphic designer and photographer who runs the excellent blog Morbid Anatomy, where she explores the meeting of art and medicine.
For more of her work, including photos from several medical museums around the world, check out her online exhibition The Secret Museum and her morbid anatomy collections on Flickr.
Malaria-zapping Laser
May 15th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
If only more geeks would put their skills to use like this, that brighter future wouldn’t seem so far away.
The Medical Museion
May 10th, 2010 § 7 Comments
Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
The old building of the Royal Academy of Surgeons in Copenhagen now houses the Medical Museion – a meeting point of medical history, art and science. I finally had a chance to visit last weekend. « Read the rest of this entry »
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 30
April 20th, 2010 § 11 Comments
Welcome to Grand Rounds Vol.6 No. 30 here at the Sterile Eye (photo credit). The theme for this edition is Visual Communication. Some of the posts address this more directly than others, so to harmonize form and content I have chosen to represent the submitted posts not by words, but by 450×150 pixels each.
None of the images are taken from the posts, but are chosen by me because they in some way or other embody the subject of the different posts. Click on the images to read the posts. Enjoy! « Read the rest of this entry »
Grand Rounds Here Next Week
April 13th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
I’ll have the honor of hosting Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 30 on Tuesday April 20. Grand Rounds is the weekly round-up of the best health blog posts the web has to offer. Check out this week’s great edition over at .PARALLEL UNIVERSES..
Suggested theme is VISUAL COMMUNICATION, but all posts will be accepted. Send them to [my email] by the end of Sunday April 18. Put “Grand Rounds Submission” in the subject and please include the following in your mail:
1. Post title
2. Post URL
3. Short description of the post
4. Blog title
5. Blog URL
Hoist the sails. Posts away!
Jan van Rymsdyk – Drawer of Wombs
March 19th, 2010 § 9 Comments
Jan van Rymsdyk's most famous plate from William Hunter's "Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus".
In October 2008 I visited the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, where William Hunter’s great book of obstetrics was on display. Published in 1774, The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus did much to advance the understanding of human pregnancy. The book contains 34 copper engravings. 31 of these magnificent medical illustrations were made by a mysterious man called Jan van Rymsdyk. « Read the rest of this entry »
Bring the Nose
March 6th, 2010 § 3 Comments
Still from the animation film "Le Nez" by Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker.
There are a a few diagnoses that we take a standardized set of photos for, regardless of the individual patient. These sets provide the best photos of the diagnosis and assures consistency of documentation. One of these diagnoses is Deformatio Nasi or crooked nose. I don’t know if it’s because the photos are predetermined, but we always just call these patients “a nose”. « Read the rest of this entry »
My Videos goes App
February 9th, 2010 § 4 Comments
iOncolex, an iPhone application that contains photos and videos by yours truly, became available at the iTunes Appstore yesterday. The application is developed by my former employer, the Institute for Medical Informatics at Oslo University Hospital. « Read the rest of this entry »
Skin Like Butterfly Wings
December 21st, 2009 § 7 Comments
Illustration by Neil Duerden.
I have done a lot of photo work in the skin ward the last weeks, and have encountered a lot of conditions I’ve never heard of before. One of the most horrible and strange is epidermolysis bullosa or EB. « Read the rest of this entry »
The Unreusable Syringe
October 30th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
The reuse of syringes is one of the major causes for the spread of AIDS, and accounts for more deaths annually than malaria.
In this TED Talk, British inventor Marc Koska presents the problem and a low-cost solution.
