The Digital Touch: Bringing Tangibility to Museums and Medicine

DHN 3300. A Digital Humanities Seminar @UOttawa in collaboration with Ingenium: Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In this seminar students used digital tools to explore the role of touch in medicine and museums. We used the new Medical Sensations exhibit at the Canada Science and Technology Museum as a foundation for these activities, in particular the section devoted to touch, medical teaching and anatomy. Above all, we kept focussed on the main message of the exhibit - how the senses provide a window into the human dimensions of medical culture - past, present and future. In the following sections, we created our own touchscapes to explore and share this topic in new ways.

Professor, David Pantalony

Adjunct Professor, History | Professeur auxiliaire, Histoire

Curator, Physical Sciences and Medicine | Conservateur, Sciences physiques et médecine @Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation / Musées des sciences et de l’innovation du Canada 

	The Doctor's lady	by University of Ottawa student, Dalie Brisson
	Gertrude: Clay Adams Anatomical Model	by University of Ottawa student, Adriane Henry
	A Hole in the Heart	by University of Ottawa student, Shanna Osse
	Wax Model	by University of Ottawa student, Tristan Lamonica
	The 3D-Printed Stethoscope	by University of Ottawa student, Alejandra Guzman
	Dermatome Man	by University of Ottawa student, Menrika Christian
	3D printing with the DHN 3300 Class	by University of Ottawa student, Menrika Christian