This week, I have mostly been pondering the baculum. A wonderful friend, "glidergoth", brought me one as a present from her trip to the...

A couple of months ago I had a fantastic behind the scenes tour of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (and it is with their...

I finally had the time, energy and a willing chaperone to be able to book a Pathology Museum event. Housed at St Bart's - which is famous...

Once, women’s problems were often ascribed to a ‘wandering womb’. The organ would go walkabout in the abdominal cavity, and as it bumped...

Looks like a normal X-ray of a normal torso doesn't it? Look closer. Okay, I see smaller creatures in there too. Swimming around. Wait,...

Which way does a chicken lay an egg? Little end first - and ease into it? Or big end first and finish with a relief? In the hopes of...

"Something entirely unique, something beautiful and charming and grotesque, perhaps a little more esoteric" was how was described to me,...

Yes, Joanne Ebenstein is amongst the guests at the Wellcome Collection next week for an Anatomical Venus and other things morbid...

I have a medical skeleton. I have an additional medical skeleton. I have been studying bones and human anatomy, and whilst quite ill...

"When I die, place my body in the hands of an anatomist." I suspect that prayer is said much less often than it should be. And especially...

As I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical...

Reading about the history of anatomy, I have come across Museo La Specola! The Florence museum containing superb wax models of anatomy....

Stunned by tonight's Doctor Who episode, Flatline. A lovely concept, and thoroughly enjoyable images (and I'll try not to spoil it if you...

Do yourself a favour. Rather than receive the same old Christmas jumper and socks this year, get your relatives to buy you a skull! There...

Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...

I never fail to be astonished by the weird and wonderful things out on display in museums that people don't even notice. And the infinite...