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.
- Article
Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
- Article
The secret hystery of a womb
A Renaissance image of a caesarean section inspired Anna Blundy to recount the story of a hidden, perhaps mysterious part of her body.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Anatomy
Date: 1727Reference: MS.MSL.9/2Part of: Notes on Anatomy and Materia Medica- Archives and manuscripts
Anatomy, 19th cent.
Date: c. 1820Reference: MS.1717/1Part of: Collectanea: Anatomy & Physiology.- Books
Anatomy and art : the man and the portrait / Carl-Herman Hjortsjo.
Hjortsjö, Carl-Herman, 1914-1978.Date: [1977]- Archives and manuscripts
Anatomy: 18th cent.
Date: Early 18th centuryReference: MS.941- Archives and manuscripts
Anatomy
Date: 1972-1975Reference: PP/DOL/A/1/1Part of: Doll, Sir Richard (1912-2005)