title: "The visible skeleton series": the art of Laura Ferguson.
abstract: Laura Ferguson's The Visible Skeleton Series constitutes an artistic self-representation of scoliosis. Ferguson employs high-tech medical imaging and innovative graphical techniques to suggest a novel view of her skeletal "deformity." This section presents introductions to the series by a historian of medicine and by the artist herself, and offers personal and professional reflections on the work from an orthopedic surgeon, a social worker with lived experience of cleft lip, and a retired pediatric forensic pathologist.
authors.affiliation: Lyman Briggs School of Science, Holmes Hall E-30, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48825-1107, USA. dreger@msu.edu
authors.forename: Alice Domurat
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Dreger
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ferguson
authors.forename: Cassandra
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aspinall
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Polly
authors.forename: J Bruce
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Beckwith
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001154:Art / Q000266:history; D001828:Body Image; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000523:psychology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history; D012600:Scoliosis