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Ways appear

While his sense of body shame meant the personal side of his life was unfulfilled, Chris’s career was rewarding. His own childhood experiences gave him profound empathy for the children he worked with.

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Our endless quest for eternal youth

From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.

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Disability, education and prejudice

In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.

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Why we need to decolonise the skies

Astronomer Dr Tana Joseph explores how rethinking way we look at the stars could improve our relationship with our own planet and make it a healthier place to live.

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  • Pupil of an eye occluded by lymph
  • Cicada pupil. (Male).
  • Cicada pupil. (Female).
  • An Egyptian philosopher teaching his pupil the art of iconology. Etching.
  • The Four Gospels, 1495, the Evangelist dictating his Gospel to his pupil Prochoros
  • Gendai, geka kihai, dictated to his pupil Matsuoka Hajime. Treatise on internal medicine spread from book 9.
  • M0007004: Manuscript page from <i>Les Ethiques d'Aristote</i> depicting Aristotle teaching his pupil Alexander the Great
  • Portrait of Gabriele Fallopius (Falloppio) (1523-1562), pupil of Vesalius and great anatomist in his own right. From a portrait in the Anatomy Institute, in the University of Modena
  • A Buddhist master (?) sitting on a chair under a tree, with books laid out on a table, while a young pupil kneels before him. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.
  • A second letter to Dr. Smelle [sic], and an answer to his pupil, confirming the impropriety of his wooden forceps ; as also of his method of teaching and practising midwifery / [William Douglas]
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