The 88-year-old Japanese physician swapped autopsies for popular science writing. In his best-seller, he argues that we have vast amounts of information but fail to understand one another because of ...

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Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774), Italian anatomist and sculptor, from a drawing by Cesare Bettini. Wikimedia Commons Anna Morandi stands in the middle of her home laboratory, wielding a curved ...

Like his anatomist peers, 18th-century Dutch scientist Frederik Ruysch preserved human and animal specimens for study, either dried or in jars. Unlike them, he shaped these specimens into a strange ...

Set in 1780, Harris’s absorbing debut introduces anatomist Thomas Silkstone, an American living in London, whom the author credits with a number of firsts, including recording the stages of ...

Controversial German anatomist Gunther von Hagens used the corpses of executed Chinese prisoners to create his exhibitions of synthetically preserved human bodies, according to German news magazine ...

In the 16th century, Bartolomeo Eustachi helped found the field of human anatomy. He is known for his work describing the human ear (the Eustachian tubes, which regulate ear pressure, bear his name), ...

Ever wondered where the placenta got its name? In Italy in the 1500s, the anatomist Matteo Realdo Colombo coined this term to describe the large fleshy organ of pregnancy. Colombo chose placenta ...

An escape room set in a dark and intriguing period of Edinburgh’s medical history has been awarded a prestigious Travellers’ Choice Award by TripAdvisor. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...