ABSTRACT
I will be reporting here on how a group of artists and designers and a group of patients approached the task of visualizing the meaning of specifi c medical diagnoses without recourse to traditional medical imagery.1 Th e purpose was to investigate how people relate to images produced in health care, and how alternative visual aids might complement printed and verbal communications between doctors and patients. One fundamental concern of this study was to evaluate the infl uence and eff ect images have on patients’ experience and knowledge of their personal health.
