Stories
- Article
Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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The enduring myth of the mad genius
There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Millar - Munson
Date: c.1907-1981Reference: PP/MLV/C/13/14Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
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A new method of making anatomical preparations : particularly those relating to the nervous system / by Joseph Swan.
Date: 1833- Books
Autopsy of the horse : technique and interpretation / James R. Rooney.
Rooney, James R.Date: 1970- Pictures
A male écorché figure, of whom only the right side of his body has been flayed. He holds the removed skin of his right side in his right hand and pulls back the skin of his left abdomen with his left hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580.Date: [between 1550 and 1559]Reference: 99i- Books
Tainted : how philosophy of science can expose bad science / Kristin Shrader-Frechette.
Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon)Date: [2014]