Yes, Joanne Ebenstein is amongst the guests at the Wellcome Collection next week for an Anatomical Venus and other things morbid symposium. I've had the link and date to book tickets noted for weeks. And am too ill to go :( But they will publish a webcast of the event :) (Image courtesy of Morbid Anatomy/Wellcome Collection) #Wellcome #MorbidAnatomy #JoannaEbenstein #Museum

... to the Wellcome Collection. A wonderful way to spend an afternoon. And actually my favourite part were the audio extracts, one of which was on the headphones behind this... skeleton? It is a description by Albert Howard Carter III (in First Cut: A season in the human anatomy lab) of medical students cutting hearts out of cadavers: "A quick worker, he is the first to have a heart entirely removed from the body. I watch him cut the last blood vessel and pull the heart up an