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Are doctors medical detectives?

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

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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth

Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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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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  • The British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, London. Photogravure.
  • Royal Postgraduate Medical School and M.R.C. Unit, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner and colleagues, 1946. Photograph, 1946.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing anatomical specimens in a cupboard. Photograph, ca. 192-.
  • Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing a man with a skeleton. Photograph, ca. 192-.
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