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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.

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The man who remembers everything

Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

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  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
  • Show Bill, 'Beware of your children' 'The Superhuman Boy'. Demonstrated at the Standard Theatre, Shoreditch by a man called Professor Anderson, a boy of seven able to cause a grown man to fall flat.
  • The head and a shoulders of a man who wears his hair short except for a mass of curls which fall over his left ear. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • The head and a shoulders of a man who wears his hair short except for a mass of curls which fall over his left ear. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • A drowning man and his horse in the sea: the drowning man holds on to the tailcoat of another rider until it tears and forces him to fall back into the water. Etching with engraving by W. Floyd after T. Allom.
  • Two women are walking out of a kitchen and a man is shouting after them as some things fall from the tray one of them is carrying. Wood engraving by H. Kaeseberg after A. Menzel.
  • A man clings to a tree, struggling not to fall into a cauldron containing a monster while a bear and snakes look on; rats gnaw at the trunk of the tree; representing the threat and eventual victory of Death. Engraving by M. Mouzyn, 1656 (?), after A.P. van de Venne.
  • A first-aider tends to a man bleeding profusely after a fall off a broken ladder; a message about HIV/AIDS and accidents in the workplace; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the CII, the Confederation of Indian Industry programme on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Colour lithograph by Amita P. Gupta, ca. 1997.
  • A condom with a bare-chested man who puts his hands in his jean pockets and the message: "Do you find him cute. Tell that to his 'ex' also ... summer is the time to fall in love and talk of condoms ..."; advertisement for the SIDA Info Service by the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de l'Assurance Maladie. Colour lithograph.
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