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Description
The medical clinician and the artist are united in their need for a special visual awareness. For each, sight must transcend the immediately apparent. The clinician must penetrate the surface to comprehend what ails the patient, the artist must penetrate color, form, and content to define truth.
The essayists and their topics are: Bernice M. Wenzel, who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Physiology and the Department of Psychiatry at U.C.L.A., “Medical Education: In Transition?”; Eric Avery, artist, photographer, and psychiatrist who completed his residency at the Psychiatric Institute in New York, “Hands Healing: A Photographic Essay”; John Cody, author and psychiatrist who completed his training at the Menninger Clinic and has published After Great Pain, The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson, “The Arts Versus Angus Duer, M.D.” and “A Grain of Sand”; Geri A. Berg, art historian and social worker who at the time of the dialogues was cochairperson of the Program of Humanistic Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Health Services, “The Visual Arts in Health Professional Education: Another Way of Seeing”; John Burnside, chief of the Division of Internal Medicine at the Hershey Medical Center, “Visual Arts and Skills Acquisition”; W. Sherwin Simmons, art historian who completed his doctoral work at the Johns Hopkins University, “The Transformation of the Language of Vision”; Charles W. Rusch, head of the Architecture Research and Design Unit of the University of Oregon, “On the Relationship of Architecture and Medicine”; and E. A. Vastyan, head of the Department of Humanities at the Hershey Medical Center, “Among Other Things, Art.”
About the Author
Geri A. Berg is an art historian and a social worker who at the time of these discussions was cochair of the Program on Humanistic studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Health Services in Baltimore, Maryland. She now lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is a social worker and coordinator of an out-patient health care team serving handicapped children and their parents. She is also a national consultant on art, humanities, and medical education.