Go to 
Links:
Medical humanities and Links:
Articles/exhibit announcements to find articles with links to their online
versions.
The Consciousness of the Body, a book with art and text by Laura Ferguson, is currently in production
Laura Ferguson, “Toward a New Aesthetic of the Body,” Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog, New York University School of Medicine, October 21, 2007
Kari Neely, “Blurring the Boundaries—An Interview with Artist Laura Ferguson,” and cover art for “Bodies: Physical & Abstract” issue of Michigan Feminist Studies journal, University of Michigan, 2005-06
Riva Lehrer, ed., Humans Being: Disability in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2006
Alla Katsnelson, “Portraits in light — artists blend medical imagery into their work,” Yale Medicine magazine, Autumn 2005
Alice Domurat Dreger, Ph.D., One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal, Harvard University Press, 2004
Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century, Rutger’s University Press, 1997
Alice Domurat Dreger, Ph.D., ed., with articles by Alice Dreger, Laura Ferguson, David W. Polly, M.D., J. Bruce Beckwith, M.D., and Cassandra Aspinall, “The Visible Skeleton Series: The Art of Laura Ferguson,” a special section in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Spring 2004 (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A., Art Annotation, “Literature, Arts & Medicine Database” New York University
Alix Clyburn, “Laura Ferguson: An Inner-Body Experience,” The Palette, VSA arts, Spring 2005
ArtWorks, Maryland Public Television, September 15, 2004
Bidisha Banerjee, “City Lights: Still Going/Exhibits,” Washington City Paper, critics picks, August 27, 2004
Rebecca Adams, “Picture of Health: Spinal Art,” The Washington Post, June 22, 2004
Thomas Dimopoulos, “Gallery celebrates its grand reopening,” The Saratogian, April 10, 2003
Laura Ferguson, “Nude Body Beautiful,” Conscience, Spring 2003
Ronald L. DeWald, M.D., editor-in-chief, Spinal Deformities: The Comprehensive Text, Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, NY, 2003: cover art
Lisa Naingollan, “Scoliosis patient uses art as therapy,” Rheumawire/JointandBone.org, April 2003
“Laura Ferguson, An Artist With Scoliosis, Uses Her Own Body for Inspiration,” The Spinal Connection, National Scoliosis Foundation, Winter 2003
Zosia Chustecka, “Late-onset idiopathic scoliosis does not have grim prognosis 50-year study shows,” Rheumawire, February 5, 2003
Zosia Chustecka, “Artworks capture emotions of orthopedic patients and physicians,” Rheumawire, March 6, 2001
Wanda Reif, “An Orthopedic Perspective on Art,” The Lancet, June 29, 2002
Suzette Hill, “Expressions,” Arthritis Today, magazine of the Arthritis Foundation, July-August 2002
Teri Thomson Randall, “Art Censored, A Message Lost,” Pasatiempo magazine, Santa Fe New Mexican, May 31, 2002
Brian Lehrer, “On the Line,” WNYC radio interview, February, 2002
“Orthopedics and Art Unite at (Where Else?) the U.N.,” The New York Times, February 5, 2002
“Orthopedics in Art,” U.S. Art, August, 2001
Alice Dreger, Ph.D., “What the Headless Woman Said: The Politics and Art of Patient Display in Medical Science, Practice and Education,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2000
“Exhibit Features Art Inspried by Orthopedics,” HealthBiz News.com, October, 2001
Jessica Dawson, “Museum of the Muses: Orthopedics at Millennium,” The Washington Post, May 17, 2001
Franck Seuret, “De chair et d’os” (“Of flesh and bone”), Faire Facemagazine, Paris, France, July 2001, featured artist
Women in Action magazine, Isis International, Manila, August, 2001, cover artist for issue on women with disabilities
“How Does Art Shape Your World?” Learning Through the Arts series, VSA arts, Washington, DC, 2001
Andrea McCarren, “Uncensored Art Exhibit Causes Controversy,” ABC News, WJLA-TV, Washington, DC, April 26, 2001
Lloyd Grove, “A Bone To Pick With the Senate,” The Washington Post, April 17, 2001
“Disability World,” March-April 2001, cover art/featured artist
John Simerman, “Works of Art Nourished, Not Stifled, by Disability,” New York Newsday, October 4, 1994
Other media
“Laura Ferguson: Visualizing Inner Space,” a 15-minute video documentary directed by Peter Barton
“Curvatures,” dance piece choreographed and performed by Nusha Martynuk, inspired by and using images from The Visible Skeleton Series, premiered at Oberlin College, Spring 2001
Links:
Medical humanities and Links:
Articles/exhibit announcements to find articles with links to their online
versions. The Consciousness of the Body, a book with art and text by Laura Ferguson, is currently in production
Laura Ferguson, “Toward a New Aesthetic of the Body,” Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog, New York University School of Medicine, October 21, 2007
Kari Neely, “Blurring the Boundaries—An Interview with Artist Laura Ferguson,” and cover art for “Bodies: Physical & Abstract” issue of Michigan Feminist Studies journal, University of Michigan, 2005-06
Riva Lehrer, ed., Humans Being: Disability in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2006
Alla Katsnelson, “Portraits in light — artists blend medical imagery into their work,” Yale Medicine magazine, Autumn 2005
Alice Domurat Dreger, Ph.D., One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal, Harvard University Press, 2004
Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century, Rutger’s University Press, 1997
Alice Domurat Dreger, Ph.D., ed., with articles by Alice Dreger, Laura Ferguson, David W. Polly, M.D., J. Bruce Beckwith, M.D., and Cassandra Aspinall, “The Visible Skeleton Series: The Art of Laura Ferguson,” a special section in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Spring 2004 (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A., Art Annotation, “Literature, Arts & Medicine Database” New York University
Alix Clyburn, “Laura Ferguson: An Inner-Body Experience,” The Palette, VSA arts, Spring 2005
ArtWorks, Maryland Public Television, September 15, 2004
Bidisha Banerjee, “City Lights: Still Going/Exhibits,” Washington City Paper, critics picks, August 27, 2004
Rebecca Adams, “Picture of Health: Spinal Art,” The Washington Post, June 22, 2004
Thomas Dimopoulos, “Gallery celebrates its grand reopening,” The Saratogian, April 10, 2003
Laura Ferguson, “Nude Body Beautiful,” Conscience, Spring 2003
Ronald L. DeWald, M.D., editor-in-chief, Spinal Deformities: The Comprehensive Text, Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, NY, 2003: cover art
Lisa Naingollan, “Scoliosis patient uses art as therapy,” Rheumawire/JointandBone.org, April 2003
“Laura Ferguson, An Artist With Scoliosis, Uses Her Own Body for Inspiration,” The Spinal Connection, National Scoliosis Foundation, Winter 2003
Zosia Chustecka, “Late-onset idiopathic scoliosis does not have grim prognosis 50-year study shows,” Rheumawire, February 5, 2003
Zosia Chustecka, “Artworks capture emotions of orthopedic patients and physicians,” Rheumawire, March 6, 2001
Wanda Reif, “An Orthopedic Perspective on Art,” The Lancet, June 29, 2002
Suzette Hill, “Expressions,” Arthritis Today, magazine of the Arthritis Foundation, July-August 2002
Teri Thomson Randall, “Art Censored, A Message Lost,” Pasatiempo magazine, Santa Fe New Mexican, May 31, 2002
Brian Lehrer, “On the Line,” WNYC radio interview, February, 2002
“Orthopedics and Art Unite at (Where Else?) the U.N.,” The New York Times, February 5, 2002
“Orthopedics in Art,” U.S. Art, August, 2001
Alice Dreger, Ph.D., “What the Headless Woman Said: The Politics and Art of Patient Display in Medical Science, Practice and Education,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2000
“Exhibit Features Art Inspried by Orthopedics,” HealthBiz News.com, October, 2001
Jessica Dawson, “Museum of the Muses: Orthopedics at Millennium,” The Washington Post, May 17, 2001
Franck Seuret, “De chair et d’os” (“Of flesh and bone”), Faire Facemagazine, Paris, France, July 2001, featured artist
Women in Action magazine, Isis International, Manila, August, 2001, cover artist for issue on women with disabilities
“How Does Art Shape Your World?” Learning Through the Arts series, VSA arts, Washington, DC, 2001
Andrea McCarren, “Uncensored Art Exhibit Causes Controversy,” ABC News, WJLA-TV, Washington, DC, April 26, 2001
Lloyd Grove, “A Bone To Pick With the Senate,” The Washington Post, April 17, 2001
“Disability World,” March-April 2001, cover art/featured artist
John Simerman, “Works of Art Nourished, Not Stifled, by Disability,” New York Newsday, October 4, 1994
Other media
“Laura Ferguson: Visualizing Inner Space,” a 15-minute video documentary directed by Peter Barton
“Curvatures,” dance piece choreographed and performed by Nusha Martynuk, inspired by and using images from The Visible Skeleton Series, premiered at Oberlin College, Spring 2001
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