Plates from “Essai d’Anatomie” produced by Gautier D’Agoty in 1745 in Paris, France.

Amazing work by medical illustrator Alexandra Baker, one half of the team that makes up DNA Illustrations, Inc.  Click on the images to see what they represent.

Artist Joseph Turek found early inspiration in his father’s medical textbooks. 

Wikipedia:

Wound Man is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts in the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents.

It would really suck to be wound man.

AS&K does some phenomenal science and medical animation. I have no idea what these things are, but I sure want to know. And isn’t that what good illustration does?

Mauro Perucchetti’s Jelly Baby Family sculpture

Peruccchetti on his piece:

 12 years ago I created a body of work inspired by the dilemma between cloning and religion, and cloning and medical ethics. I decided to use the jelly baby as an impersonation of cloned mankind. I was trying to capture the ambiguity that could be present in a cloned being. On first glance, they seem very sweet, but from certain angles, they can look slightly sinister, especially on a large scale. 

In the current version, ‘Jelly Baby Family 2011’, they could easily embody the unity of family and the multicultural aspect of modern society that is so prevalent, especially in London.