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  • Dickie Beau

    Alternative cabaret performer exploring gender roles

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    Brain showcase

    Some of the best neuroscience research and public engagement works supported by the Wellcome Trust

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    Crick's DNA sketch

    Early visualisation of the famous double helix

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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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    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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  • Narrative Remains

    Karen Ingham's film that gives voice to preserved body parts

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    Quartz 8.10 carpet

    Carpet produced for the Festival of Britain

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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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    A Manchu Bride

    A magnificent wedding costume, but gloomy prospects

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    A Boatwoman

    Simply but beautifully dressed

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    A Chinese Portrait Artist

    Western methods, imperial tradition

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  • "I have seen my death!"

    Röntgen's first x-ray

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    Silence=Death

    A grim parallel with Nazi Germany

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    Steve Cross on the direct testing project

    What can you learn about your own DNA online?

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    Old Friends Misunderstood

    Artwork by Julie Freeman and Jeremy J Ramsden

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    Anatomy of Dr Willem Roell

    The anatomy lecturer dissects a knee-joint

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    A warning about fornication

    17th century Spanish painting of a woman as a skeleton

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    William Harvey and the circulation of the blood

    The physician who discovered the function of the heart

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    Tomorrow Belongs to Me

    Discovering 'anticipation' in genetic disorders

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    Anatomy lessons

    Instruction at St Dunstan's

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    Valentine Greatrakes

    The 'stroking doctor'

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