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Art is deeply engrained within medicine. From its very beginnings, medicine was considered art and if you used tools or technology you were not really considered a doctor. In the beginning of the twentieth century, however, technology began to be incorporated into hospitals, starting with microscopes to ever more complex technologies. Anatomy and dissection are really at the intersection of art and science. As far back as the Ancient Egyptians, people have been interested in understanding the human body in more depth. This desire to be able to see the human body from the inside gave rise to x-rays, MRIs, and CAT scans. The CAT scan, for example, records sections at different parts of the human body—like the visible human project but without actually cutting the body open. A sample of The Visible Human Project. ("The Visible Human Project - Color Cryosections." U.S. National Library of Medicine . National Institutes of Health, n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2