AMA Journal of Ethics

This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.

Patients’ experiences of darkness and doubt can be replaced by a sense of buoyancy and lightness. Color and movement convey a patient’s sense of striving, aspiration, and optimism.

Hippocrates, a plague doctor, and today's physician practice in ancient, medieval, and contemporary times and places.

Pastel and oil paint on wood are used to investigate self-preservation during processes of medical training and professionalization.

Entrainment can distract from pain and offer a means of witnessing important health care experiences.

As with medicine, artistic practice has a historical relationship with technology. Mechanization, in particular, deserves attention.

As we continue to substitute body parts with machinery, we wonder, “What makes us human?”

Four paintings capture unaccompanied children’s experiences of love, loss, and hope during their migration to the United States.

This graphic storybook portrays an undocumented child in the United States who is denied fundamental human rights to health care, education, shelter, and food.

These paired photographs of what physicians do when they wear and don’t wear their white coats show a range of activities physicians do to sustain their well-being and dispel false beliefs about their personal lives.