The improvement of technology as time passes by really helps us study human body further. From the way that ancient Egyptian or ancient Greeks to process the corpse to the human body dissection that developed during renaissance, from the visible human project which cut the cadaver into thin slices and photographed and digitalized each slice to the human genome project that identify all human DNA, we are exploring more and more about the secret of human body and apply them into art and life.
One of the most impressive technology I have looked at in detail is the X-ray. X-ray is being used anywhere in our life now, like in the airport when we check the luggages, or in manufacturing when we text the components, or in medical text etc. The improvement of X-rays than other technique before like dissection is that it allows us to know the detail of human body without cutting the body apart.
Moreover, X-rays is apply to medical field such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and CAT scan. In MRI, people use scanner cutaway to scan through human's brain or body. It is widely used in medical diagnosis to investigate the anatomy and physiology of the body in both health and disease without exposure to ionizing radiation. In CAT scan, X-ray images are processed by computer to produce tomographic images (virtual 'slices') of specific areas of a scanned object. Compared to the visible human project, CAT scan allows us to "see through" the scanned object without cutting it. 
The usage of X-ray reminds me in the linguistic class I took last quarter, the linguists also use X-ray to scan through people's articulation organ and figure out how the phonetics works. When we see the images we will find out that human body is truly an art because the mechanism is amazing and beautiful. So from here we can know that medical technology not only been widely used for human's health but also closely related to art.Works Cited:
Vensa, Victoria. "Human Body and Medical Technology: Part 1." Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk>.
Vensa, Victoria. "Human Body and Medical Technology: Part 2." Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psjnQarHOqQ>.
Vensa, Victoria. "Human Body and Medical Technology: Part 3." Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 22 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX-9mXd3Y4>.
"X-ray Computed Tomography." Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 14 Dec. 2014. Web. 26 Apr. 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_computed_tomography>.
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I really enjoyed your post, Jingyi! I can especially relate to the linguistics topic, since I am a linguistics and computer science major. I, too, took a class that talk about this, and I thought it was really interesting. Anyways, you generally spoke about how the improvement of technology allows us to explore the human body. While I do agree with you, I wonder what is your take on plastic surgery, since technology has evolved to incorporate these procedures, though it doesn't necessarily allow us to explore the human body further.
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