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Born different

For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming

Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.

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Printing the body

The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.

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  • Male surgeon in the Operating Room.
  • Male surgeon in the Operating Room.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar: operating room equipment. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre and sterilizing room. Photograph, ca. 1909.
  • I. P. Pavlov talking in an operating room at his laboratory
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • Operating room staff wheeling a patient back into a ward after an operation. Oil painting by Ethel Macmillan, ca. 1940.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A washroom or operating room in the Physiological Laboratory either at the Institute of Experimental Medicine or at the Imperial Military Medical Academy, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
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