Sliced liver, anyone?

The first public autopsy in Britain for 170 years brought back vivid memories of medical school - and an acute sense of hunger - for the Guardian's junior doctor Michael Foxton.

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David M Friedman charts the transformation of man's best friend from supernatural phenomenon to leisure accessory in his cultural history of the penis, A Mind of Its Own

Time, and the great healer

In 1943, a young research scientist found a cure for TB. It should have been the proudest moment of Albert Schatz's life, but ever since he has watched, helpless, as another man got all the credit. Veronique Mistiaen reports.