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.
I recommend either the concise Lonely Planet guides or the bulkier but more thorough Travellers' Health by Dr Richard Dawood (Oxford University Press, £14.99.
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
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.