"Medicine in the Arts" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Depiction of medical issues or themes via the arts including visual, oral, or written forms of expression.
| Descriptor ID |
D008512
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.093.530
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicine in the Arts" by people in Profiles.
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Artist's Statement: Foreground/Background. Acad Med. 2023 07 01; 98(7):781.
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That Dragon, Cancer-Exploring End of Life Through an Unwinnable Video Game. JAMA. 2020 Oct 13; 324(14):1379-1380.
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The #NYerORCoverChallenge: What it means for women in cardiothoracic surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017 10; 154(4):1349-1351.
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Seeing illness in art and medicine: a patient and printmaker collaboration. Med Humanit. 2016 Sep; 42(3):155-9.
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The Renaissance Kidney-Nephrology in and about the Sixteenth Century. Semin Dial. 2012 Jul; 25(4):451-9.
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So you want to be like Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo? Which one are you? Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011 Dec; 128(6):1309-1311.
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More about Fildes. Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med Soc. 2005; 68(1):53-4.
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Thomas Eakins' Agnew Clinic. a study of medicine through art. Obstet Gynecol. 2002 Dec; 100(6):1296-300.
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Michelangelo: art, anatomy, and the kidney. Kidney Int. 2000 Mar; 57(3):1190-201.
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The management of instability and incompleteness: clinical ethics and abstract expressionism. J Med Philos. 1997 Feb; 22(1):1-10.