Stories
- Article
Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition
Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.
- Article
The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
- 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.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
Catalogue
- Videos
Blood and guts: a history of surgery. Part 4, Fixing faces.
Date: 2008- Videos
The plastic surgery story.
Date: 2003- Books
La chirurgia plastica per innesto / [Gaspare Tagliacozzi] ; traduzione, introduzione e note di Werner Vallieri ; prefazione del Prof. G. Sanvenero Rosselli.
Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 1545-1599.Date: 1964- Books
Richard Seymer's Golden workes of phisecke & surgury (ca. 1576) : an edition with introduction and glossary / by Phillip Martin Teigen.
Seymer, Richard, active 16th century.Date: [1976]- Books
Dolor y belleza : Gaspare Tagliacozzi, cirujano del Renacimiento = Pain and beauty : Gaspare Tagliacozzi, surgeon of the Renaissance / texto, Fernando Ortiz Monasterio ; fotografía, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.
Ortiz Monasterio, Fernando, M.D.Date: [2000]