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All articles filed in anatomy

Frank Armitage Drawing
Animation Color Educational & Instructional SoundJanuary 23, 2019February 6, 2023

Informative Beauty

By Oliver Gaycken, PhD

The archival record is mostly silent on the origins of this short film produced and narrated by Frank Armitage, a medical illustrator who also worked as a Disney animator and mural artist, and whose work demonstrates the rare beauty of medical art. By tracing Armitage’s career, we can contextualize and elucidate Anatomical Animation.

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The Human Body
Animation Black & White Educational & Instructional SilentJuly 8, 2015February 10, 2023

“Stronger and Whiter Light Down Deeper and Darker Holes”: Jacob Sarnoff and the Strange World of Anatomical Filmmaking

By Miriam Posner, PhD

As a historian of medicine’s visual culture, I’ve seen some weird films. But The Blood Vessels and Their Functions (1924–1925) still took me aback.

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A white woman leans on her hand looking down at something while an older woman speaks to her.

In the next Medicine on Screen essay, Seth Watter examines a use of cinema in psychiatry. Folie à Deux (1951) and The Faces of Depression (1959) are examples of attempts to create “diagnostic cinema,” a deployment of film to aid in the recognition and treatment of mental illnesses. Both Canadian productions depict a brief period before the domination of a pharmaceutical approach in which cinema was seen as a method to promote physician empathy.

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A group of ten men and women in business atire sit in a circle. Journey into Self (1968)

This is a filming of the first session of an intensive basic encounter group led by Dr. Carl Rogers, widely known for developing a client-centered approach to psychotherapy and as a founder of humanistic psychology, and Dr. Richard Farson, a founder of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute. The session features eight previously-unacquainted persons from different regions of the United States, participating in a loosely structured, conversational “encounter,” a form of group therapy.

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