Artworks

Art of Medicine
Dec 2025

Great Lakes Eutrophication and Respiratory Health Harms

Anaid Kassidy Corona-Andaverde

This digital drawing of satellite images showing the eutrophication of Lake Michigan visually explores relationships among respiratory health, algae blooms, and aerosolized cyanotoxin exposure.

AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(12):E873-875. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.873.
Art of Medicine
Nov 2025

A Comic of RBCs and Other EHR TMI

Teddie Bernard
This comic prompts viewers and readers to consider conditions under which sharing raw clinical data with patients promotes better care.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(11):E821-822. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.821.
Art of Medicine
Oct 2025

Decision-Making About Biospecimens

Anaid Kassidy Corona-Andaverde
This digital drawing considers a signatory’s experience of some consent processes in health decision-making.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(10):E761-763. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.761.
Art of Medicine
Aug 2025

Radiate Youth?

Lio Barnhardt
This diptych is a satirical advertisement for a fictional face cream, inspired by and based upon a radium health craze during the early 20th century.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(8):E624-627. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.624.
Art of Medicine
Aug 2025

Self Portraits of a Woman in Peril

Kayla Mackenzie McCormick
This series of self-portraits explores relationships between one’s self and possible genetic and epigenetic sources of illnesses.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(8):E619-623. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.619.
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Art of Medicine
Jun 2025

Perch and Peel in Illustrated Poems of Embodiment

Michaela Chan, MFA
Trace monotype is a physically demanding medium, requiring an artist to “perch” over glass and ink while marking paper.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(6):E450-456. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.450.
artm4-2506
Art of Medicine
Jun 2025

Self-Portraiture, Embodiment, and Adaptive Creation

Julia O’Brien
Time Capsule is a collection of multimedia paintings and sculptures that visually consider collective and individual health events and experiences.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(6):E426-437. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.426.
artm7-2506
Art of Medicine
Jun 2025

Embodied Experiences of Implants

Holland Houdek, MFA
Hyperbolic has a total of 40 sculptures, 6 of which are featured in this article, which examine how devices implanted become embodied.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(6):E442-449. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.442
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Art of Medicine
Jun 2025

Watercolor With Tremor

Wendy McMahon
This study page of a bearded iris documents the artist’s process of learning watercolor painting while navigating chronic fatigue, tremor, and pain.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(6):E440-441. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.440.
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Art of Medicine
Jun 2025

Painting Through Macular Degeneration

Michael Zitser
This work considers adaptations required to nourish artistic capacity, despite bodily and well-being changes over time.
AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(6):E438-439. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2025.438.