Stories
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The intermediate life of spirits
Courttia Newland explores the events and his feelings surrounding the death of his mother-in-law, Tara Chauhan.
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Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
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Fashion for an unruly body
One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
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A horse whose body is composed of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 462557i
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A camel whose body is composed of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 462556i
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005585: Girl with body painting, North Queensland
Date: August 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/45/97Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Nerves of the human body. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582973iPart of: Alexandrian series.
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Bloodletting points and moxa points on the human body. Gouache painting, Tibet.
Reference: 582618i