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The Professionalization of Medical Practice from the Renaissance Through the Twentieth Century. Filippo Brunelleschi, Ospedale degli Innocenti , Florence , 1419. Disease in Art in the 15 th and 16 th Centuries. Josse Lieferinxe , St. Sebastian Interceding for the
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The Professionalization of Medical Practice from the Renaissance Through the Twentieth Century
Filippo Brunelleschi, OspedaledegliInnocenti, Florence, 1419
Disease in Art in the 15th and 16th Centuries
JosseLieferinxe, St. Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken, 1497-99
Pico dellaMirandola wrote in 1486, De hominisdignitade, in which he stated that the mission of human beings was characterized by “Intelligence and thinking to understand the beauty of the world created by God.”
Leonardo da Vinci, Study of Human Internal Organs, ca. 1511 Leonardo da Vinci, Study of an Ox’s Heart, ca. 1511
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. NicolaesTulp, 1632
Hieronymus Bosch, The Cure for Folly or The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, 1501-05
Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller’s Masterstroke, 1855-64 Theodore Gericault, Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy, 1820-21
Edward Jenner (1749-1823) Developed the first Vaccine for Smallpox in 1796
Josiah Johnson Hawes and Albert Sands Southworth, Early Operation Under Ether, Massachusetts General Hospital, ca. 1847
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) The First Woman to Practice Medicine and Open her Own Medical Office. She earned her medical degree in 1849and subsequently opened a practice in New York City. She was heavily involved in social change, as well as medicine throughout her life, and had such famous friends and correspondents as Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lady Anna Byron, wife of the poet Lord Byron.
Keith Haring, Life of Christ Altarpiece, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, 1990/96
Her cancer cells didn’t die under examination like those of most other patients, but doubled within 20 to 24 hours, allowing researchers to study and learn, and eventually treat cervical cancer more effectively. She eventually succumbed to her cancer and died at the age of only 31 in 1951. Kadir Nelson, Henrietta Lacks: The Mother of Modern Medicine, 2017