Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Frank Netter

  • Redefining the medical artist

    Meena MalhotraChicago, Illinois, USA Medical illustration is a long-standing tradition that dates back to the sixteenth-century anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius. In his preface to his book, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), Vesalius commented on the value of images and dissection in learning anatomy: How much pictures aid the…