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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.

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Sick of the theatre

What makes the stage a good place to share real-life experiences of ill health?

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The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

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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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  • Aberdeen University: the Faculty of Medicine and medical class of 1897-1902, each in a roundel, head and shoulders. Process print, 1902.
  • Members of the medical faculty at Edinburgh University, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Schenck and McFarlane after L. Ghémar, ca.1850.
  • Members of the medical faculty at Edinburgh University, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Schenck and McFarlane after L. Ghémar, ca.1850.
  • Lectures on the materia medica, as delivered by William Cullen, M.D., professor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Now published by permission of the author, and with many corrections from the collation of different manuscripts by the editors.
  • Lectures on the materia medica, as delivered by William Cullen, M.D., professor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Now published by permission of the author, and with many corrections from the collation of different manuscripts by the editors.
  • Lectures on the materia medica, as delivered by William Cullen, M.D., professor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh / Now published by permission of the author, and with many corrections from the collation of different manuscripts by the editors.
  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Edinburgh University: John Chiene and Dr MacKay with medical students. Photograph by J.G. Tunny, 1885.
  • Lecture by Sir Philip Randle at Addis Ababa University. Colour lithograph, 1989.
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