dissection

A hand-coloured copy of Vesalius’ 1543 Epitome – one of the most influential works in western medicine – and the first written record of a dissection...

A study of the University of Cambridge anatomy collection dating from the 1700s and 1800s shows how the bodies of stillborn foetuses and babies were...

Corpses sold for dissection by body snatchers helped improve understanding of how the human body worked, according to a new book that brings together...