Surgical and medical treatment in art

Edited by Alan E H Emery, Marcia L H Emery. Published by The Royal Society of Medicine Press, London, 2006, £45.00 (hardcover), pp 139. ISBN 1-85315-695-7. The interface between medicine and art has always been blurred, particularly with the work of such famous men as Leonardo da Vinci, whose 15th century drawings of the human body would not be out of place in a modern-day anatomy textbook. …