Anatomy Episodes
Ep.4 - Head To Toe - Skull
May 12, 2023
Join us as we explore the history of medicine, from head to toe! This time: the skull.
Ep.72 - Sam Alberti - Watercolour, woodcut and wax - Medical illustration around 1900
Dec. 10, 2021
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.
Ep.59 - Sachiko Kusukawa - Vesalius And The Canon Of The Human Body
June 11, 2021
Dr Sachiko Kusukawa examines the different - and often ingenious - ways in which Andreas Vesalius used anatomical images in his book, De humani corporis fabrica.
Ep.54 - Keren Hammerschlag - William Orpen: looking at bodies in medicine and art
April 2, 2021
William Orpen: Looking at Bodies in Medicine and Art, by Dr Keren Hammerschlag.
Ep.50 - Richard Barnett - The Theatre of Anatomy
Feb. 5, 2021
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.
Ep.47 - Anna Maerker - Gendering Artificial Anatomies: Practices and Materials
Dec. 25, 2020
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.
Ep.42 - Vivian Nutton - An Urge to Correct: Andreas Vesalius Revised
Oct. 16, 2020
Professor Vivian Nutton discusses Vesalius’ activities as reviser and corrector over his career as a Galenic anatomist.
Ep.40 - Janet Philp - Burke, Now and Then
Sept. 18, 2020
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.
Ep.39 - Sophie Goggins - Prosthetics: From Maker to User
Sept. 4, 2020
Reviews the history of prosthetics in Edinburgh and emerging technologies that are shaping the field.
Ep.34 - Kristin Hussey - William Harvey, College of Physicians and the Discovery of Circulation
June 26, 2020
Dr Kristin Hussey discusses William Harvey, one of Britain’s foremost anatomists and discoverer of the circulation of blood.
Ep.25 - Simon Chaplin - The Heroic Anatomist: 18thc Dissection and the Stoic Ideal
June 10, 2020
The Heroic Anatomist: 18th Century Dissection and the Stoic Ideal, by Simon Chaplin.
Ep.23 - Abigail Woods - Animals And Their Pathologists In London, 1846 - 1900
June 10, 2020
Reveal the place and purpose of animals within human pathological anatomy during the later 19th century.
Ep.22 - Helen MacDonald - After Burke And Hare: Procuring Corpses To Dissect In Scotland
June 10, 2020
After the 1832 Anatomy Act a distinctive pattern of corpse procurement was creatively forged in Scotland - Dr Helen MacDonald explains.
Ep.16 - Lisa Rosner - Crime Scene Edinburgh: Forensic Science In The Era Of Burke And Hare
June 10, 2020
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.
Ep.1 - Sue Black - The History of Forensic Anthropology
June 10, 2020
Charts the history of forensic anthropology in the UK and illustrate its constant links back to so many aspects of applied anatomy.