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Pain, politics and the power of photography

Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies

Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.

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The problem of the punctured heart

During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.

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Devilry and doom in 1666

Disastrous events and a significant combination of numbers signalled the end – or perhaps a new beginning – in 1666. But for some, this feverish period fuelled unprecedented inventiveness and development.

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  • Genesis II:21, garden of Eden, birth of Eve
  • The Creation: episodes in the book of Genesis. Oil painting.
  • The Creation: episodes in the book of Genesis. Oil painting.
  • The Creation: episodes in the book of Genesis. Oil painting.
  • The Creation: episodes in the book of Genesis. Oil painting.
  • The Creation: episodes in the book of Genesis. Oil painting.
  • The six stages of the Creation as described in the first chapter of Genesis. Etching, ca. 1790.
  • Génesis de la cirurgía abdominal / Wyeth International Limited.
  • Génesis de la cirurgía abdominal / Wyeth International Limited.
  • De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. Epistolam ad Academiam Imperialem Scientiarum Petropolitanam / dedit Carolus Ernestus a Baer.
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