title: Is San Francisco's "The Shaking Man" an urban depiction of parkinsonism?
abstract: Art and Medicine often mingle in the most unexpected ways. One can often find in pictorial art the representation of many medical conditions. The same can happen with sculptures; however, the finding of an urban sculpture in a public space with features of parkinsonism is unique. We reported how "The Shaking Man", an urban sculpture located in the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, USA, is a contemporary representation of parkinsonism and compared it with other art works in different media that also present such thing to laymen.
authors.affiliation: Neurology Service, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital de Clínicas, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba PR, Brazil. frankgerminiani@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Francisco Manoel Branco
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Germiniani
authors.forename: Pedro Vinícius
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Staziaki
authors.forename: Vanessa Fiorini
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Furtado
authors.forename: Helio A G
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Teive
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D020734:Parkinsonian Disorders; D012495:San Francisco; D012613:Sculpture