Tag: anatomy
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Katie Birkwood – interview: ‘The bodies of society’s disadvantaged, the poor and people of colour, were most likely to be used and abused without consent’
The Royal College of Physicians’ exhibition of anatomical illustrations, from medieval times to the present day, reveals the intersecting histories of medicine, art and politics, explains Under the Skin’s curator, Katie Birkwood
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Body Worlds: Fascination Beneath the Surface
Body Worlds exhibits human corpses: skinned, gutted, flayed, peeled, shelled, filleted, opened up – dissected in every imaginable way. The cadavers are perfectly preserved by infusion with plastics and then posed in order to enlighten as science and elevate as…
