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Education
Georgina Ferry on its history and contemporary uses
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Showing invasive cancerous tumour in the breast
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Late 18th century image of the Medicine Buddha
Armenian miniature from 1495
Amulet for safe pregnancy and delivery
19th century lacquered wood domestic shrine
Scare-devil from the Nicobar Islands
The healing power of amulets
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Medical imaging techniques
Sonographer Raj Dave explains ultrasound to an expectant mother
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Religious belief in an age of reason
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Early x-ray tube
Scanning electron micrograph image
Photograph of test tube
David Gentilcore discusses amulets
New technologies being used in in-vitro fertilisation
How controversy surrounds scientific research