Stories
- Article
Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
- Article
The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
- Article
Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- In pictures
The original drama of operating theatres
Medicine as ‘theatre’ began in the 16th century, when paying audiences enjoyed candlelight, live music – and a cadaver being dissected in front of them, all the in name of education.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
Dissection of a sheep.
- Books
Dissection guides / by H.G.Q. Rowett.
Rowett, H. G. Q. (Helen Graham Quiller)Date: 1950-1953- Books
Dissection guide for veterinary anatomy / by James D. Grossman.
Grossman, James D. (James Daniels), 1884-1961.Date: [1944]- Books
Dissection and vivisection in the European Renaissance / Roger French.
French, R. K. (Roger Kenneth)Date: [1999], ©1999- Pictures
- Online
Dissection of diseased intestines. Watercolour, ca. 1851.
Date: [1851?]Reference: 576873i