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Special Section: "The Visible Skeleton Series": The Art of Laura Ferguson
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 2, Spring 2004
- p. 159
- 10.1353/pbm.2004.0023
- Article
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Laura Ferguson's The Visible Skeleton Series constitutes an artistic self-representation of scoliosis. Ferguson employs high-tech medical imaging and innovative graphical techniques to suggest a novel view of her skeletal "deformity." This section presents introductions to the series by a historian of medicine and by the artist herself, and offers personal and professional reflections on the work from an orthopedic surgeon, a social worker with lived experience of cleft lip, and a retired pediatric forensic pathologist.