Scan and Skin: Art as Ethical Innovation in Medicine | Devan Stahl | TEDxBaylor University

Can fine art help physicians and patients better understand illness. That may seem counterintuitive. After all, modern medicine is built on technological progress and innovation.It's true that physicians once needed artists to help them depict anatomy and illness, but today we have better technology. A medical image like this one, an MRI of the brain, has helped to revolutionize medicine. An MRI reveals what a body conceals by rearranging atoms in our body's tissues.An MRI can detect things like brain tumor ...