The first cut was the deepest

Does plastic surgery change the 'inner you'? Catherine Bennett tries to find out in Virginia L Blum's Flesh Wounds

A man in two minds

Deirdre Bair's diligent biography of Carl Jung reveals his divided personality, but the more we know about him the less real he becomes, says Adam Phillips

Norman Heatley

Key member of the team that took penicillin from laboratory discovery to mass-produced wonder drug.

Animal lab challenged

Two animal welfare groups are challenging the government's backing of a £32m research laboratory which will use monkeys in research on Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other incurable diseases.