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And for the public, medical illustrations may only be encountered passively on the walls of a doctor's office.
而對于普通人來說，醫學插畫可能只是偶爾在醫生辦公室的墻上瞥見過。
From the beginnings of modern medicine, medical illustration, and therefore anatomy,
自現代醫學誕生以來，醫學插畫和隨后的人體解剖學，
have existed primarily within the realm of medical education.
就主要存在于醫學教育中。
Yet there's something fascinating happening right now.
但是一些不可思議的事情正在發生。
Artists are breaking anatomy out of the confines of the medical world and are thrusting it into the public space.
藝術家們正在讓解剖學走出醫學領域，闖入公眾的視野。
For the past nine years, I have been cataloguing and sharing this rise in anatomical art with the public
過去九年間，我一直在進行編目，并與大眾分享解剖藝術的興起
all from my perspective as a medical illustrator.
僅以一位醫學插畫家的視角。
But before I get into showing you how artists are reclaiming anatomy today,
不過，在講述藝術家如何掌握解剖學之前，
it's important to understand how art influenced anatomy in the past.
有必要先了解藝術在過去是如何影響解剖學的。
Now, anatomy is by its very nature a visual science,
解剖學本質上是一門視覺科學，
and the first anatomists to understand this lived during the Renaissance.
而第一批有這種想法的解剖學家生活在文藝復興時期。
They relied on artists to help advertise their discoveries to their peers in the public.
他們求助于藝術家，向同行公開展示自己的新發現。
And this drive to not only teach but also to entertain resulted in some of the strangest anatomical illustrations.
這種對寓教于樂的向往，帶來了一些極其詭異的解剖插畫。
Anatomy was caught in a struggle between science, art and culture that lasted for over 500 years.
解剖學陷入科學、藝術、文化的三角關系中已經500多年了。
Artists rendered dissected cadavers as alive, posed in these humorous anatomical stripteases.
藝術家將解剖的尸體畫成活人，上演一場場幽默的解剖“脫皮舞”。
Imagine seeing that in your textbooks today.
設想你們如今在課本也能看到這些會怎樣。
