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Your journey from cell to human

Find out how you became you with these ten highlights from ‘The Making of You’ by embryologist Katharina Vestre.

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Book design, dissected

Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.

  • In pictures

Our bodies inside out

A series of exquisite ink and watercolour illustrations reveal the incredible things going on under our skin.

  • Book extract

Chasing down a mystery illness

In an extract from their graphic novel about a deadly, drug-resistant illness, Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs explore why knowledge isn’t always the same as power.

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  • Phthisiologia: or, a treatise of consumptions. Wherein the difference, nature, causes, signs, and cure of all sorts of consumptions are explained. Containing three books: I. Of the original consumptions from the whole habit of the body. II. Of an original consumption of the lungs. III. Of symptomatical consumptions, or such as are the effects of some other distempers. Illustrated by particular cases, and observations added to every book. With a compleat table of the most remarkable things. Translated from the original / [Richard Morton].
  • Pages in a book; left, a Liberal page illustrated with a happy child, a cornucopia and a medallion of Gladstone; right, a Tory page illustrated with an unhappy child and a serpent depicted with the face of Disraeli. Engraving after W. Dewane, ca. 1880.
  • A sick man seated in an armchair is turning his head away from a book illustrated with a skeleton; doctor on the left, two servants in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • The book of the Rotunda Hospital : an illustrated history of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital from its foundation in 1745 to the present time / by T. Percy C. Kirkpatrick ; edited by Henry Jellet.
  • The book of the Rotunda Hospital : an illustrated history of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital from its foundation in 1745 to the present time / by T. Percy C. Kirkpatrick ; edited by Henry Jellet.
  • The book of the Rotunda Hospital : an illustrated history of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital from its foundation in 1745 to the present time / by T. Percy C. Kirkpatrick ; edited by Henry Jellet.
  • The book of the Rotunda Hospital : an illustrated history of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital from its foundation in 1745 to the present time / by T. Percy C. Kirkpatrick ; edited by Henry Jellet.
  • The book of the Rotunda Hospital : an illustrated history of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital from its foundation in 1745 to the present time / by T. Percy C. Kirkpatrick ; edited by Henry Jellet.
  • 'Human essence/semen', C16 Chinese painted book illustration
  • Drug preparation, C16 Chinese painted book illustration
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