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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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Hands-on healthcare

A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.

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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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  • A lecture to medical staff in London in training for operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • A lecture to medical staff in London in training for operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • An American sailor sits disconsolately in his pyjamas, regretting his infection with a venereal disease incurable with penicillin. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • Childbirth, or the happie deliverie of women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women ... together with the diseases which happen to women. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them / Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav.
  • Childbirth, or the happie deliverie of women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women ... together with the diseases which happen to women. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them / Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav.
  • Childbirth, or the happie deliverie of women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women ... together with the diseases which happen to women. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them / Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav.
  • A patient drinking the medicinal waters from a drinking fountain at Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary). Colour lithograph by H. Seemann, ca. 1930.
  • Der gantzen Artzenei ge-meyner Inhalt, Wes einem Artzt, bede in der Theoric und Practic zusteht. Mit anzeyge be-werter Artzneienn, zü allen leibichen Gebrechenn, / durch natürliche mittel, Hiebei beneben des menschen corpers Anatomei, warhafft Contrafeyt, und beschriben. Allen Artz-ten, und eim ieden zu sein selbs, unnd seins nehsten noturfft dienlich, wol zu haben und zuwissen. Newlich in Truck verordnet durch D. Ioan. Dryandrum Medicum, Ordinarium zu Marpurgi. ... Cum gratia & priuilegio Imperiali.
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