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The metamorphosis of masturbation

Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?

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Picturing mental health

Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?

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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure

Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.

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Naked, not nude

Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.

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  • Ovid's Metamorphosis, 1640
  • Ovid's Metamorphosis, 1640
  • Ovid's Metamorphosis, 1640
  • Ovid's Metamorphosis, 1640
  • Metamorphosis of Filaria bancrofti.
  • Developing muscles and their innervation during metamorphosis
  • The metamorphosis of Ajax, a Cloacinean satire: with the Anatomy and Apology ... To which is added Ulysses upon Ajax / [Sir John Harington].
  • The head of a frog, in the fourth stage of a physiognomic metamorphosis into an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.
  • The head of a frog, in the early stages of a physiognomic metamorphosis into an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.
  • Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP
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Stories of Metamorphosis

Henry Wellcome Auditorium
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Part of On Medicine and Change

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