Stories
- 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.
- In pictures
Exposing the secrets of the human body
Scientists, artists, and philosophers have long studied our anatomy to try to discover what it means to be human.
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
Catalogue
- Film
The human body. Part 2, An everyday miracle - birth.
Date: 1998- Books
- Online
Specialism in teaching and examining / by Thomas Cooke.
Cooke, Thomas, 1841-1899.Date: 1896- Books
- Online
Specialism in medical teaching and examining / by Thomas Cooke.
Cooke, Thomas, 1841-1899.Date: 1897- Film
The mid-brain infant.
Date: 1925 / 1960- Archives and manuscripts
Professor Oliver Wrong
Professor Oliver Wrong (1925-2012)Date: 1946 - 2016Reference: PP/WRO