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Indigenous Art often expresses the complex culture of their creators and provides insight into the origins, histories, and values of that culture. Two examples of Northwest Indigenous Art suggest deeper meanings and the “power” of congenital anomalies.
This article describes Dr. M. Michael Cohen, Jr.'s passion for art and music. His two sons share family memories and photos. Dr. Cohen developed a keen interest in the visual arts, collecting lithographs, enjoying many art exhibits, and conducting original research on Picasso's art. His interest in faces formed a central connection between his professional life and his artistic interest. His love...
People with skeletal dysplasias have left traces in art and antiquities through ages and cultures worldwide, in Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece, Sub‐Saharan Africa, Asia, and Europe. Such traces record the impact of people with skeletal dysplasia on society and culture—in daily life, religion, and mythology. However, identifying (“diagnosing”) skeletal dysplasia in artifacts and interpreting what...
Neurocutaneous syndromes are a group of genetic disorders affecting the skin, the central and peripheral nervous system, and the eye with congenital abnormalities and/or tumors. Manifestations may also involve the heart, vessels, lungs, kidneys, endocrine glands and bones. When people with these disorders are portrayed in works of art, physicians have speculated on possible diagnoses. In particular,...
The experience of art provides the visitor of a museum or gallery with the opportunity to contemplate and share the human condition both from the physical and psychological point of view. Because of the accessibility and the number of museums throughout Europe, classical European art as both sculpture and painting, affords the viewer the opportunity to experience life from one part of the world over...
This essay describes the author's reflections as a contemporary artist who was the sister of a woman with Turner syndrome. She reflects on the process of creating a painting which is literally about X and 0, but conveys deeper artistic and personal themes.
Cover image: Top row: Abstract representation of Turner syndrome as X and O's (contributed by the author, Montgomery et al., 2021). Second row: Left panel is a photograph of the sarcophagus of Djeho (courtesy of Dr. Chahira Kozma, in Botto, 2021); middle panel shows a depiction of Hāloa (contributed by the artist Solomon Enos, in Dowsett et al., 2021); right panel shows “Don Baltasar with a Dwarf”...
Conjoined twinning is a rare birth defect estimated to occur in about 1 in 50,000 to 100,000 births. The mechanism of conjoined twinning is not proven. Different forms of conjoined twinning are observed with the thoracopagus form being the most common. The rate of conjoined twinning is similar across all major populations. A dramatic malformation of this type would be an extraordinary occurrence leading...
Astute observation is a fundamental skill in medical care because not only it is crucial for the detection of patients' emotions (which is a prerequisite for empathy) but also it can often yield diagnoses at first sight. The Germans call this technique “augenblickdiagnose,” and indeed, gestalt diagnosis together with systematic review is used by dysmorphologists to identify syndromes. Artists have...
Dwarfism has been depicted in various Chinese art forms including literature, sculpture, and painting. This article examines several representative Chinese works of art from different ages of Chinese history, in order to glimpse the living situations of people with dwarfism, their professions and social status, as well as the social attitude toward them in China. We highlight “山海经” (Shan Hai Jing,...
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