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The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds in the world. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. |
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Anatomy
The Greeks thought we were built like pigs, and when Renaissance man first cut his sacred flesh it was an act of heresey. We trace the noble ambitions of medical science to the murky underworld of Victorian grave robbing, we trace 2000 years of anatomical study.
From the great showman Vesalius, enthralling the Renaissance Artists in the operating theatres of Italy to the sad and gruesome pursuits of Burke and Hare, Anatomy is mankind's often frustrated attempt to understand the body of man. Joining Melvyn Bragg around the slab will be Ruth Richardson, Andrew Cunningham and Harold Ellis to explore the role of science, religion and art in the quest to understand the male and the female body.
Guests
Harold Ellis
Clinical Anatomist, School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College, London
Ruth Richardson
Historian, and author of Death, Dissection and the Destitute, Phoenix Press
Andrew Cunningham
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the History of Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
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