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Unsettling beauty: RCP show challenges “neutrality of medical gaze”

BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m42 (Published 08 January 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m42
  1. Tom Moberly
  1. The BMJ

Contemporary ceramics feature alongside illustrated dissections from the 18th and 19th centuries in an exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in London. “Under the skin: anatomy, art and identity” sets out to explore “the unsettling beauty of the human body from the medieval age to the contemporary world.”

The show includes works from a …

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