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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.
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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.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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The original drama of operating theatres
Medicine as ‘theatre’ began in the 16th century, when paying audiences enjoyed candlelight, live music – and a cadaver being dissected in front of them, all the in name of education.
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Dissection of the eyeball.
Date: 1950- Videos
Dissection of the eyeball.
Date: 1950- Film
Dissection of the eyeball.
Date: 1950- Books
Dissection and vivisection in the European Renaissance / Roger French.
French, R. K. (Roger Kenneth)Date: [1999], ©1999- Pictures
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Dissection of diseased intestines. Watercolour, ca. 1851.
Date: [1851?]Reference: 576873i