Art and Medicine at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (Part 2)

 

Gilles Barbier, L'Hospice (The Nursing Home), 2002. Detail

When American superheroes get too shabby, they are sent to vegetate in Gilles Barbier's Nursing Home. The work refers quite straightforwardly to our societies' obsession with eternal youth. Should medical research be geared towards the fight against the loss of youthfulness? Or isn't medicine's most noble mission to provide us with better lives? Will our society ever revert to respecting old age?
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The Exhibit

Chemical BPA Linked to Heart Disease

You might want to consider an alternative the next time you store your food in those plastic containers. A recent study found high concentrations of BPA, a man made chemical used in everyday plastic containers linked to heart disease. Read source