Anatomy Episodes

Join us as we explore the history of medicine, from head to toe! This time: the lungs.

Join us as we explore the history of medicine, from head to toe! This time: the skull.

Anatomy and surgery have strong extra-textual elements. The development and transmission of these crafts rely heavily on visual communication in a range of media, whether by practitioners or (other) illustrators.

Dr Sachiko Kusukawa examines the different - and often ingenious - ways in which Andreas Vesalius used anatomical images in his book, De humani corporis fabrica.

William Orpen: Looking at Bodies in Medicine and Art, by Dr Keren Hammerschlag.

Drawing on the images collected in his award-winning book, Richard Barnett explores a corpus of art that is beautiful and morbid, singular and sublime.

Explores two aspects of gendering in the production and deployment of, not only the Auzoux papier-mâché anatomical models, but other contemporaneous artificial anatomies also.

Professor Vivian Nutton discusses Vesalius’ activities as reviser and corrector over his career as a Galenic anatomist.

Janet Philp explores the history around the tale of Edinburgh’s infamous body-snatchers Burke and Hare, and Dr. Knox, the recipient of their shady undertakings.

Reviews the history of prosthetics in Edinburgh and emerging technologies that are shaping the field.

Dr Kristin Hussey discusses William Harvey, one of Britain’s foremost anatomists and discoverer of the circulation of blood.

The Heroic Anatomist: 18th Century Dissection and the Stoic Ideal, by Simon Chaplin.

Reveal the place and purpose of animals within human pathological anatomy during the later 19th century.

After the 1832 Anatomy Act a distinctive pattern of corpse procurement was creatively forged in Scotland - Dr Helen MacDonald explains.

Prof. Lisa Rosner takes a CSI-style approach to discuss the notorious murders carried out by Burke and Hare, who supplied bodies for dissection at Edinburgh's medical school.

Charts the history of forensic anthropology in the UK and illustrate its constant links back to so many aspects of applied anatomy.