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  • Magic, jins and the evil eye

    Do dark forces affect people's health?

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    Childbirth as an athletic feat

    Exercising for pelvic flexibility in the 1930s

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    A Question of Confidence

    Happier mothers and healthier babies

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    A Way of Life

    1970s health education drama about an overweight man

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    Souls in purgatory

    18th century watercolour

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    Marzine anti-nausea

    Packaging for drug showing an astronaut in space

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    Crick's DNA sketch

    Early visualisation of the famous double helix

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    Magliabecchiano Codex

    Aztec depiction of religious sacrifice

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    Wax torso by Joseph Towne

    Showing the connections between heart and brain

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    Wooden scare-devil

    Scare-devil from the Nicobar Islands

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  • A fly on sugar crystals

    Colour enhancement of a scanning electron micrograph image

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    Childhood mortality

    Death at the nursery window

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    A man drinking himself to death

    Early 19th century etching by Thomas Rowlandson

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    Iain Sinclair on amulets

    The healing power of amulets

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    Human remains on display

    The Museum of London's Hedley Swain

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    Jelly Baby 3

    Mauro Perucchetti's chemical clone

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    The life cycle of the malaria parasite

    Interactive showing the life cycle of the malaria parasite

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    Smithfield: Butchery and medicine

    Site of the meat market and 12th Century priory hospital

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    The Foundling Hospital

    Thomas Coram’s home for abandoned children

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    Quartz 8.10 carpet

    Carpet produced for the Festival of Britain

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  • Glass HIV sculpture

    Modelling microbes without the colours of fear

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    Soviet mothers

    Poster giving advice on pregnancy and birth

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    Identifying babies

    A professional midwife talks about how we tell babies apart

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    'Fat is the new black'

    Vicki Swinden discusses weight and self-image

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    Obese mouse

    Genetically engineered for research

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    A Cruel Kindness

    1960s film about childhood obesity

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    Blood clot

    Scanning electron micrograph image of a blood clot

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    Jenner vaccinating a boy

    Injecting fluid from an infected cow into a human being

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    Yama and the Wheel of Life

    Tibetan drawing of the Lord of Death

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    John Sulston on genetics

    Nobel Prize winner Sulston discusses his work

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