From Studio to Surgery: Women, Art, and the Visualization of Medicine
Black and white illustration showing the aortic valve.

From Studio to Surgery: Women, Art, and the Visualization of Medicine

MUHC Permanent Archives Centre 2026

Explore the pathologies of the past and discover the untold stories of talented women who transformed medical publishing in early 20th-century Montréal. Shut out of professional medicine, they found a new path through medical illustration using extraordinary artistic skill and scientific knowledge to document disease, advance medical discovery, and help shape the future of medicine.


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