Five images capture the tensions in health care between dependency and autonomy, vulnerability and strength, and independence and dependence.

Art therapy helps trafficking survivors deal with trauma, but anti-trafficking advocates who exhibit survivors’ artwork must guard against re-exploitation.

Mary Richards uses Margeaux Gray’s art to illustrate how art can be an effective means of healing for human trafficking survivors.

People with autism have a right to access “autism-friendly” theatrical performances. Theater-based treatment programs can help remove stigma and cultivate participants’ reciprocal social communication skills.

Visual literacy modules can help trainees learn to integrate narrative and visual information in clinical encounters. The medical humanities curriculum at Australia’s Bond University uses art to build students’ diagnostic skills.

Art-based patient advocacy has expanded public awareness and opened the eyes of many to patients' health care experiences.

The experience of an English professor dying of ovarian cancer in Margaret Edson’s play Wit shows that both literary and medical discourse obfuscate and objectify rather than promote communication of “simple human truths” that dignify life and death.

Artwork by Kyle T. Amber.

Drawing Autism, a collection of drawings and paintings by people diagnosed with autism, demonstrates an array of talent and themes as well as providing insight into the artists and autism spectrum disorder.

Kevin Hosseini’s painting of his tutor’s dog, Bella.