What is Medical illustrator?
A '''medical illustrator''' or '''medical artist''' is an [[artist]] that [[wikt:professional|professionally]] works to use art to help to explain and [[wikt:record|record]] [[wikt:knowledge|knowledge]] related to [[biology]] and [[medicine]]. They don't only make these things, but they can also work as [[consultant]]s or [[administrator]]s in the field of [[biocommunication]]. They make [[wikt:medical|medical]] pictures using original and modern ways of doing things. These pictures appear in [[textbook]]s and [[advertisement]]s about medicine, as well as [[wikt:professional|professional]] journals and videos made to help instruct people in various medical [[wikt:procedure|procedures]]. ==History== Medical pictures or [[wikt:diagram|diagrams]] have been made for hundreds of years or longer. Many of these pictures or diagrams look different than the ones that we see today because they were based on the studies of the [[wikt:scholar|scholars]] of that period in time rather than [[wikt:observe|observing]] the thing that they wanted to draw [[wikt:directly|directly]]. As a job, medical illustration has a more recent history. In the late 1890s, [[Max Brödel]], who was an artist from [[Leipzig]], was brought to the [[Johns Hopkins School of Medicine]] to draw pictures for several [[wikt:notable|notable]] [[clinician]]s, including [[Harvey Cushing]], [[William Stewart Halsted|William Halstead]], and [[Howard Atwood Kelly|Howard Kelly]]. Max Brödel also made several new [[wikt:technique|techniques]] for drawing medical pictures, such as [[carbon dust]]. He also looked over the making of first [[wikt:academic|academic]] department of medical [[illustration]], which is still active today. ==Other websites== * [http://www.mshealthcareers.com/careers/medicalillustrator.htm Article about Medical Illustrators on mshealthcenteers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317082418/http://www.mshealthcareers.com/careers/medicalillustrator.htm |date=2010-03-17 }} [[Category:Illustrators|*]] [[Category:Scientist