The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination: The First Medical Book
Jay Walker presents a series of books from the 1500s to the early 1800s that portray visual “patterns” that were supposedly common to humans and animals.
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The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: The View Across Worlds
The first of ten short talks Jay Walker gave at TEDMED 2010. His theme: what the evolution of medical illustration reveals about human imagination in both art and …
The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: The Uses of Color
Jay Walker shows how medical texts have imaginatively employed color as a stimulant to understanding and a tool to create greater realism.
The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: The Human Brain
Concluding his brief sessions on imagination, Jay Walker zeroes in on the source of human imagination: the still-mysterious human brain.
The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: The Medical Art of War
The blood-splattered manual of a 17th century field-surgeon demonstrates that the urgency of war provided a fierce prod to imagining how the human body could be repaired.
The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: Beauty in Service of Science
Jay Walker shows, through art, how early scientists employed beauty to increase viewer involvement and understanding.
The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: Unseen Micro-Worlds
Jay Walker shares the very first book to illustrate what scientists could see under a microscope.
The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: Hidden Aspects of Death
Using a Bills of Mortality from London’s great plague of 1665, Jay Walker shows how the first official compilation of public health data revealed unexpected statistical trends.
The Walker Library Of the History Of Human Imagination: Imagination in Depth
Jay Walker shows some of history’s first pop-up books, used to illustrate both scientific and pseudo-mystical subjects.
When should adults be seeing a pediatrician?
Bart Kamen talks about why their is a large disparity between pediatric and adult oncologists when it comes to the survival rate of 15-30 year-olds with various cancers …