Medical Historical Library

Picturing Disability Technology

Emma Brennan-Wydra

Our first 2018-19 Ferenc Gyorgyey fellow, Jaipreet Virdi, Ph.D., shares an aspect of her research on disability technology through photographs and postcards.

Read her post "Picturing Disability Technology."

 

 

 

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist who made several advancements in neuroanatomy, winning a Nobel Prize in 1906. Cajal studied at an art academy before moving to the medical field, and made use of his artistic training in documenting what he saw through the microscope. His illustrations are still published today in medical textbooks and journals. Some of his assertions, such as the brain being made up of individual neurons, were later confirmed with the development of electron microscopy. These sketches are from his title Nuevo concepto de la histología de los centros nerviosos (1893). #ramonycajal #neuroscience #neuroanatomy #pathology #neuroart #neuroscienceart #neurons #medicalhistory #medhist #histmed #librariesofinstagram