Stories
- Article
Fashion for an unruly body
One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.
- Article
Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
Catalogue
- Books
Back-bone : photographed from "The Scalpel" / by Edward H. Dixon.
Dixon, Edward H., 1808-1880.Date: [1866]- Books
Clever backbone / John Agard.
Agard, John, 1949-Date: 2009- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Diagram referenced as "DNA base sugar phosphate "backbone""
Miss JacksonDate: March 1956Reference: KDBP/1/1/1900Part of: King's College London Department of Biophysics- Digital Images
- Online
Illustration of the DNA double helix. The sugar-phosphate backbone of the two complementary strands are visible (red and blue).
Susan Lockhart- Books
The backbone of history : health and nutrition in the Western hemisphere / edited by Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose.
Date: 2002