Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how these two c

The wild success of the traveling Body Worlds exhibition is testimony to the powerful allure that human bodies can have when opened up for display in gallery sp

Anatomy museums around the world showcase preserved corpses in service of education and medical advancement, but they are little-known and have been largely hid

Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population

The 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith travelled the globe collecting, cataloguing and constructing morphologies