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Visual and multisensory artistic practices that remediate medical data and imagery can ethically and effectively explore the complexities of grief surrounding pregnancy and child loss beyond diagnostic interpretations. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Examine how medically derived imaging and data can be artistically remediated within an ethics of care framework to explore the complex experiences of pregnancy and child loss.

August 22, 2026Medical Humanities

Visual materialisation of loss: artistic engagements with medical data and imagery as an exploration of pregnancy and child loss

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Examine how medically derived imaging and data can be artistically remediated within an ethics of care framework to explore the complex experiences of pregnancy and child loss.
Analyzed three specific artworks (Gestationality, Subcutaneous, and The Topography Table) integrated into the performative installation Loss is Mine and is Stored within this Body.
Applied an ethics of care framework grounded in critical medical humanities and social sciences to address the ethical handling of medical scans, participants, and audiences.
Demonstrated that translating medical data through haptic visuality and scale shifts diagnostic artifacts into multisensory, embodied explorations of grief.
Showed that visual and multisensory artistic practices provide an ethical medium for articulating and confronting the nuanced emotional realities of reproductive loss.

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Qualitative arts-based study demonstrates the remediation of diagnostic scans into multisensory art, highlighting new ethical avenues for addressing grief in pregnancy and child loss.

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Sofie Eleanor Layton (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895facca7ade938187e780 https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2026-013982

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Qualitative arts-based study demonstrates the remediation of diagnostic scans into multisensory art, highlighting new ethical avenues for addressing grief in pregnancy and child loss.

Visual materialisation of loss: artistic engagements with medical data and imagery as an exploration of pregnancy and child loss

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Visual materialisation of loss: artistic engagements with medical data and imagery as an exploration of pregnancy and child loss

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