Body Image as Seen by the Anatomists, the Artists, and the Surgeons

I don’t intend to write about beauty, much less attempt to define it. My purpose is to present a general perspective of the concept of body image as seen by the anatomists and by the artists and, to some extent, by the surgeons. Implicit in this overview is the fact that all of them, anatomists and artists, represented in their work the ideal of beauty at their particular time and culture.