Diagnoses
Medicine has a talent for typology – for taking a collection of disturbing tests and symptoms and synthesising them into a unitary diagnosis. OOOH!! has many artworks that reflect on the travails of particular diagnoses of mind and body.
Selected Artworks
OOOH!! can be used to illuminate our understand of diagnoses as diverse as trigeminal neuralgia, autism, cardiomyopathy, dementia , anorexia and pemphigus vulgaris. It is pleasing too that a majority of artworks tackle themes that transcend any particular diagnosis.
OOOH!! Search & Filter
Use the OOOH!! filter system below to locate all the works dealing with a particular diagnosis. The dropdown list “Diagnoses” will reveal all. You can then narrow your search by choosing additional dropdown categories such as Art Forms and Specialties.
Medical Dilemma
An elderly woman in acute pain, balancing the level of pain-killers in question
Sun-Spun
The poet observes a child with autism absorbed in play and feels privileged to be invited to join her world
Hearts
Ninety-two paper hearts to represent the loss of the artist’s father to heart disease
Dementia and the Sense of Self
‘I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that’
Bubble
A hospital visit to a friend profoundly altered bodily and mentally whilst being treated for an eating disorder
From steroids to self healing – a patient’s journey
A daughter’s insight into her mother’s healing process and an exploration into the concept of self-healing and holism
Diagnoses
Medicine has a talent for typology – for taking a collection of disturbing tests and symptoms and synthesising them into a unitary diagnosis. OOOH!! has many artworks that reflect on the travails of particular diagnoses of mind and body.
OOOH!! can be used to illuminate our understand of diagnoses as diverse as trigeminal neuralgia, autism, cardiomyopathy, dementia , anorexia and pemphigus vulgaris. It is pleasing too that a majority of artworks tackle themes that transcend any particular diagnosis.
OOOH!! Search & Filter
Use the OOOH!! filter system below to locate all the works in OOOH!! which use a particular medium. The dropdown list “Perspectives” will reveal all. You can then narrow your search by choosing additional dropdown categories such as Art Forms and Diagnoses.
Life in the Glasshouse
A terminally ill patient bodily connected to various machinery processes being on the threshold between life and death
The Window to the Patient
A celebration of the uniqueness of each individual
Emergency
A pivotal domestic reminder holds a father back from taking his own life
Termination
The emotional aftermath of an unwanted termination
Homonymous Hemianopia
Humorous poem about the impact of a stroke and the daily challenges of living with only seeing half of your immediate environment
Trapped
Prose from the viewpoint of young girl with her mother in consultation -unable to get word in edgewise
Disabled Mind
A teenager with a cleanliness phobia, perpetual hand-cleaning, turns inwards
Old Addicts
Poem about the precariousness of drug addiction
Imagine if?
Images of fruit and vegetables humorously positioned to represent significant and common patients’ clinical anxieties
Postnatal Depression
Powerful image and poem describing the agonizing physical and emotional impact of a traumatic childbirth
The Empathetic Doctor
Composite figure questioning assumptions and identification from cultural/social/gendered/racial and ageist perspectives
Vertigo
Synthesized image inspired by a patient living with distorted vision, fragile balance, and further complications
Support
Image of woman who has lost her child during early pregnancy – in the hands of her sensitive G.P.
The Slipper and the Shoe
A terminally-ill patient’s slipper and the shoe are symbolic of his attitude to life – never to give up
On the Outside
The universally shared complexities and challenges of emotionally supporting others
My Real Image
Patients carry the pain and fear of their loved-ones within their individual medical journey
Unhappy for 9 Years
Living with loss
The Destruction of Stigma
A graphic illustration and documentation of a young man’s acceptance of his HIV diagnosis
It’s all in the genes
A family’s challenges around the acceptance and perceptions of their daughter living with Downs Syndrome
What Can You See?
Artwork and narrative offering hope that even long-standing addiction can be minimized and a patient’s quality of life rebuilt
No one
A poetic processing of living with OCD
Face Value
Prose about a young medic feeling he had connected with a patient yet finding her case-notes revealed a very different story
Lady With Pink Hair
Young mother tragically contracting severe neurological condition during clinical treatment and deteriorating rapidly
Beyond Appearances
A student’s observation of a surgeon establishing clinical boundaries
How Can I Ever Forgive Myself?
Prose about a patient’s unbearable grief and guilt and a doctor’s support
Practise What You Preach
The hypocrisy of an authoritarian doctor with life-style issues lecturing on well-being
BERG Balance
Physiotherapist supporting a patient through a balance test
Real Symptoms
A challenging consultation with a dissatisfied, distraught patient
A Successful G.P. Consultation
Depiction of a positive G.P. consultation as anxiety diminishes
Helping Hands
Institutionalization and learned helplessness in hospital
Waking
Poignant narrative about a wife waking up next to frail and incapacitated husband
U.B.H.T Lost Property
A hospital-gowned patient at hospital desk – seeking his identity
The Patient
A bleak experience visiting a hospitalized friend – the complexities of mental health care
Broken Machine
Long-term in-patient relationship with their healthcare team – the challenge of preserving the individuality of the patient.
Doctor – Patient
The poet’s father, as a doctor finds a stay in hospital enlightening and determines to make positive changes as regards how he interacts his patients
I Have An Interest In Your Heart
A graphic and reflective response to the opt-out policy within organ donation
Patient X
This image and text raises complex issues around dis-empowerment and the quality of the patient’s individual lived experience
Life?
Concern regarding holistic care – review of a cocktail of medications and patient’s well-being and happiness in general
Pants
Poem about ‘strange privileges’ of doctors from the banal to the poignant clinical episodes
Full Moon
First visit to the surgery art sessions
Hand Sequence 1.
Illustrating a clasped hand, and all the potential implications this action has
Caterpillar to Butterfly
Thoughts on how medical education is a form of ‘metamorphosis’