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Medicine Now exhibition (view
four)
View of 'Medicine Now' showing a
transparent anatomical model of a female from the Stiftung
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, 1980.
Credit: Rama
Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Genetics Cube
View of the 'Genetics Cube' in
'Medicine Now', featuring 'Jelly Baby 3' by Mauro Perucchetti.
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Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Didactic Teaching Skull
The 'Didactic Teaching Skull' exhibit
in 'Medicine Now'
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Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Transparent woman
A transparent anatomical model
of a female, from the Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, 1980.
Credit: Rama
Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Transparent woman
A transparent anatomical model of a
female, from the Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, 1980.
Credit: Rama
Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Transparent woman
A transparent anatomical model of a
female, from the Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, 1980.
Credit: Rama
Knight/Wellcome Images.
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I can't help the way I feel
Detail of 'I can't help the way I
feel' by John Isaacs, 2003.
Credit: John Isaacs
2003/Rama Knight/Wellcome Images.
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I can't help the way I feel
Detail of 'I can't help the way I
feel' by John Isaacs, 2003.
Credit: John Isaacs
2003/Rama Knight/Wellcome Images.
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I can't help the way I feel
Detail of 'I can't help the way I
feel' by John Isaacs, 2003.
Credit: John Isaacs
2003/Rama Knight/Wellcome Images.
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I can't help the way I feel
Detail of 'I can't help the way I
feel' by John Isaacs, 2003.
Credit: John Isaacs
2003/Rama Knight/Wellcome Images.
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I can't help the way I feel
Detail of 'I can't help the way I
feel' by John Isaacs, 2003.
Credit: John Isaacs
2003/Rama Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Veil of Tears
Detail of 'Veil of Tears', by
Susie Freeman and Dr Liz Lee, 2007.
Credit: Susie
Freeman and Dr Liz Lee/Rama Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Veil of Tears
Detail of 'Veil of Tears', by Susie
Freeman and Dr Liz Lee, 2007.
Credit: Susie
Freeman and Dr Liz Lee/Rama Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Veil of Tears
Detail of 'Veil of Tears', by
Susie Freeman and Dr Liz Lee, 2007.
Credit: Susie
Freeman and Dr Liz Lee/Rama Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Mosquito Coast
Deceptively simple, this work depicts
the standard world map drawing. Look closer and you will see the
black line is made up of thousands of mosquitoes. Open to numerous
interpretations, the work gestures towards ideas about the spread
of malaria and its resistance to attempts to stamp it out.
Credit: Alastair
Mackie/Rama Knight/Wellcome Images.
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Human Genome Colour Chart
A paint colour chart with
approximately 4500 letters cut out of individual colour bands. The
letters are ACGT which make up the genetic code. The coloured
letters are grouped in an ordered case.
Credit: Julie
Cockburn 2005/Wellcome Images.
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Palindrome
'Palindrome' was inspired by a
section in J G Ballard's 'The Atrocity Exhibition' , in which
a character imagines that "the bones of the pelvis may constitute
the remains of a lost sacral skull" and therefore at one time the
ancestral human body was a palindrome - the same backwards as
forwards.
Credit: William
Cobbing 2003/Wellcome Images.
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Collection: Acts of Faith
The work looks at how the ideas of
faith, dependence and hope are made physical in medicine. Working
from the two ideas of the ex-voto object and the medieval doctrine
that proposed the medical efficacy of plants because of their
resemblance to parts of the body, the work comprises a vast number
of non-prescription tablets, vitamins and herbal supplements carved
into images of those parts of the body which they are designed to
treat.
Credit: Julian
Walker 2003/Wellcome Images.
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Julian Walker with 'Collection: Acts
of Faith'
Credit: Julian
Walker 2003/Wellcome Images.
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Bud
Farmers, gardeners and scientists
have long sought to improve the quality, yield and resilience of
plants through various forms of modification but nothing has caused
more debate and divided opinion than genetic modification. The
potential benefits in contrast to the irreversible dangers of
interfering with the very building blocks of life are not always
easy to disentangle. 'Bud' reflects this duality and appears as
both a trophy and time bomb.
Credit: Rob
Kesseler/Wellcome Images.
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Senses
This is one in a sequence of
sculptures that illustrate the activity patterns of the human brain
as it responds to the five senses: touch, smell, sight, hearing and
taste. Scans of a subject's brain using each of the senses were
produced with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). These
scans were then converted into three-dimensional physical
structures of amber resin using a rapid-prototyping process. The
elegant simplicity of the sculptures belies the complexity of the
technology required to make them.
Credit: Annie
Catterall/Wellcome Images.
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DNA Spiral
An interpretation of DNA as an
illuminated barber's pole. Made from neon and scientific glass.(
1530mm x 1830mm x 2440mm).
Credit: Robin
Blackledge/Wellcome Images.
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Untitled
These paintings, while influenced by
X-rays and the structures of the human body, are not strict
representations. In a process that is a combination of both
painting and drawing the artist applies white ink to slate and then
uses an eraser and stiff bristle brushes to create the almost
abstract compositions.
Credit: Michael
Hopkins/Wellcome Images.
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One Man's Land
'One Man's Land' is a precise and
accurate map of a young man's face, with contour lines etched into
stainless steel. It was produced using 3D mapping technologies
usually employed to produce Ordinance Survey maps and height
surveys for communication companies. The image produced represents
accurate height information generated from stereo photographs of
the sitter.
Credit: Heather
Barnett/Wellcome Images.
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Dyslexia - wooden building
blocks
The eight coloured cubes spell
the word 'dyslexia' and are a play on children's building blocks.
The age a child will play with them is usually too young for them
to understand the symbols on them, and they will be too old to play
with them once they do. The repeated etched words on the flooring,
"This shouldn't be difficult", are the whisper that follows
dyslexic children by well-meaning teachers or
parents who cannot understand the frustrations
dyslexic children feel.
Credit: Katherine
Dowson/Wellcome Images.
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Origin (print 2)
In this work, Daniel Lee has
re-imagined human evolution through ten stages, from a
Coelacanth-like fish through reptiles and primates to modern
humans. He reminds us that by studying other animals, we can learn
more about ourselves and about the common ancestors that we all
share. The 12 prints show a fish evolving into a man.
Credit: Daniel
Lee 2003/Wellcome Images.
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HIV Virus Sculpture
800mm blown glass sculpture
of HIV. This sculpture was created in response to the constant
bombardment by coloured images we receive through the media. Many
of these images are designed to communicate fear. The artificial
colouring of images also affects what we think a virus looks like.
How many people believe a virus to be bright red and yellow?
This representation of HIV is a complex three-dimensional
transparent form. The sculpture was designed using a combination of
different scientific photographs and models and made in
collaboration with glassblower Kim George.
Credit: Luke Jerram
2004/Wellcome Images.
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