Book Review: Visualizing Disease: The art and history of pathological illustrations.

Abstract

An outstanding feature of the book is the comprehensive account of the medical men, the artists, and their collaboration. Sometimes, the same person fulfilled both roles. The biographical information, a remarkable achievement of academic research, would by itself make the book a unique reference resource. But it is far more, reflecting as it does the changes in concepts of disease, technical advances in preservation of organs and creation of images for publication, and the ambitions and careers of individual doctors and artists.