Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Philip Wilson

  • Visualizing the human body through the ages

    Philip WilsonHershey, Pennsylvania, United States From history’s earliest records, humans have expressed a keen interest in bodily structure and function. Cave wall paintings and terrestrial petroglyphs commonly include stick-figure or crudely outlined human forms.  At all ages and in every culture, people have constructed similar figures as their initial depictions of the human body, suggesting…