Medicine and the Arts

 

In keeping with its mission to promote professional learning and education, Hektoen sponsors regular programs on the broader aspects of illness and medicine as reflected in the works of artists past and present.

 

Current programs

 

  • Redefining the medical artist - August 7 to October 23, 2009
    An exhibition presenting work by students and faculty of the Department of Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This exhibition is co-sponsored by UIC Graduate College, the Hektoen Institute of Medicine and the Illinois Arts Council.  More....
    Location:  International Museum of Surgical Science - 1524 N. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago, IL 60610
    Time: Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm
    Opening reception: Friday, August 7, 5-8 pm
    Information: 312.642.6502

  • Hektoen International - A free on-line journal dedicated to the medical humanities is currently being distributed to 15,000 readers all over the world.  In each issue, we feature papers on art and medicine along with artwork by the old masters and contemporary artists.   Art and medicine articles are archived in our Library and artwork is featured in our web gallery.
                                           

 

Past programs

 

  • "Medicine on Canvas. Interactions between Art and Medicine" – A one-day conference in conjunction with the Martin D'Arcy Museum of Art, Loyola University Chicago (2004)
  • “Doctors, Artists, and Alchemists in Renaissance Europe” by Sally Metzler, Ph.D., Director, D’Arcy Museum of Art, Loyola University Chicago (2004)
  • “The Infection of St. Anthony: Reconsidering Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece” by Jerry A. Marino, Independent Scholar (2005)
  • “Leonardo Da Vinci’s Anatomical Studies” by Francis Robicsek MD, PhD, Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Carolinas Heart Institute, University of North Carolina (2005)
  • "Vision of the Artist" by Louise A. Sclafani, OD, FAAO, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, University of Chicago (2006)
  • "Healing Art:  Images from Nine Faith & Cultural Traditions" by Mary Ann McDermott, RN, EdD, Professor Emeritus, Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago (2006)
  • "Michelangelo and the Brain: an Interpretation of the Creation of Adam Based on Neuroanatomy" by Frank Lynn Meshberger, M.D., Independent Scholar (2007)
  • "The Dead Mother Series of Egon Schiele: Psychoanalytic Use of an Artist's Image" by Prudence Gourguechon, MD, President, American Psychoanalytic Association (2007)
  • "A Burst of Sunshine: Positive Visualization through Photomontage" by Nancy Gershman (2009)

These programs are being held largely under the auspices of the Society of Medical History and Humanities of Chicago and Hektoen's Nurses & the Humanities Group.