Medical Technology & Art - Danielie Ramirez

 This week’s content on the relationship between medical technologies and art covered a variety of intriguing connections between two subjects that could not seem more unconnected. The Hippocratic Oath’s explanation of the importance of art to medicine, and the report on the portraiture aspect of MRIs, both offered insight on how these disciplines are more alike than I initially perceived. I took particular interest in Donald Ingber’s “The Architecture of Life.” In his article, he writes that medical technologies have allowed scientists to learn more about biological organization. As a result, it has been found that molecular structures rely on a common form of architecture known as tensegrity. 

A molecule model to represent Biotensegrity


In addition to exploring the presence of tensegrity in biological organisms, he also highlights a number of architectural structures that rely on this framework.


Structure supported by tensegrity


 I have recently taken up an interest in interior design and one of my favorite pieces happens to exhibit this link between medical technology and art:


Tensegrity Table


The disciplines of medicine and art are united in ways I could have never begun to imagine. It is amazing how medical technology has allowed us to see the parallels between what we are made of and what we make. 








Works Cited


Casini, Silvia. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as mirror and portrait: MRI configurations 

between science and the arts.” Configurations vol. 19,1 (2011): 73-99. doi:10.1353/con.2011.0008

Ingber, D E. “The architecture of life.” Scientific American vol. 278,1 (1998): 48-57. 

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0198-48

Pereira, Matheus. "Tensegrity Structures: What They Are and What They Can Be " [Estruturas 

Tensegrity: o que são e o que esperar delas] 03 Jun 2018. ArchDaily. (Trans. Carvalho, Guilherme) Accessed 22 Apr 2022. <https://www.archdaily.com/893555/tensegrity-structures-what-they-are-and-what-they-can-be> ISSN 0719-8884

Tadeo, Irene et al. “Biotensegrity of the extracellular matrix: physiology, dynamic mechanical 

balance, and implications in oncology and mechanotherapy.” Frontiers in oncology vol. 4 39. 4 Mar. 2014, doi:10.3389/fonc.2014.00039

Tyson, Peter. “The Hippocratic Oath Today.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 27 Mar. 2001, 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/hippocratic-oath-today/. 



Images


Bordoni, Bruno et al. “Biotensegrity or Fascintegrity?.” Cureus vol. 11,6 e4819. 3 Jun. 2019, 

doi:10.7759/cureus.4819

“Buy Tensegrity Table (Super Offer) Online at Low Prices in India.” TENSEGRITY Table, 

Amazon, https://www.amazon.in/Imagination-ART001-TENSEGRITY-Table-Super/dp/B08S3DT949. 

Polinceusz, Piotr. "Structure of Architecture – Tensegrities in the construction of architectural 

space” Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment, vol.12, no.1, 2019, pp.45-52. https://doi.org/10.21307/acee-2019-004


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