Stories
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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Are people born violent?
Laura Bui explores how the nature vs nurture debate applies to those who commit homicide.
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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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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Monro's Lectures on Comparative Anatomy
Date: c. 1735Reference: MS.MSL.27/3Part of: Lectures on Materia Medica, Anatomy, &c.- Archives and manuscripts
Comparative Anatomy
Date: 1735Reference: MS.MSL.39/1Part of: Lectures of Alexander Monro, Primus- Archives and manuscripts
Lectures on Comparative Anatomy
Date: 1730sReference: MS.MSL.74/11Part of: Lectures on Medicine, Surgery, etc- Archives and manuscripts
Departments of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy and Botany, University College London
Date: Jan 1968-Aug 1972Reference: UGC 198/2/2/17Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Books
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Illustrations of comparative anatomy, vertebrate and invertebrate : for the use of students in the Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy.
Date: 1875