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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

  • Article

Are doctors medical detectives?

Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.

  • Long read

Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

  • Interview

Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing

James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.

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  • A selection of boring and cutting tools. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • A selection of boring, cutting, carving, moulding and filing tools. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Cork cutters: interior view and various cutting tools used in the manufacture of corks. Etching by Defehrt.
  • Engraving tools, punches, files, an anvil etc., for cutting seals. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after J.N. Boucher.
  • Iron forging: interior view, beating and cutting of iron containers with various tools of the trade. Etching after G. Juliet.
  • A seal-cutter and his assistant in his workshop, with diagrams of seal-cutting tools beneath. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after Boucher.
  • Saint Bartholomew of Grottaferrata supervising the building of a church; an accident is avoided when a falling column is stayed on the order of one of his disciples. Engraving by P.A. Pozzi after N. Vanni after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • A dog standing on a fresh grave looking mournfully. Lithograph after E. H. Landseer.
  • A monkey barber's shop. Engraving after P. van der Borcht.
  • A pregnant woman in bed another figure stands by the bed explaining something to her. Pen drawing after a woodcut by J. Berntsz, 1538.
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