Cat Irving
@AnatomicalCat
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Human remains conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined January 2018
This is a @medpagetoday article by forensic pathologist @drjudymelinek on the recent public dissection in Portland, Oregon. In it, she talks to me about some of the history of public dissection (free to read but you do need to register) .
medpagetoday.com
Dissecting the history and ethics of public autopsy
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For our next ‘Dissecting the Author’ event at @surgeonshall, I’ll be discussing this wonderful book with Prof. Claire Brock. This is online this Thursday, and you don’t need to have read the book to attend. Come and join us! .
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Join this zoom event where we discuss British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918 with author Claire Brock
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I’ve been speaking to @ScottBorder1 for the Teaching and Scholarship podcast - listen here! .
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RT @ECAnatomists: Time for an #ECA25 Speaker announcement! 🤩. We are excited to have Cat Irving (@AnatomicalCat) from @surgeonshall and @hu….
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A plate from Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty’s “Suite de l’Essai d’anatomie en tableaux imprimés” from 1745. This illustration is often known as The Flayed Angel. I’ve seen a number of original editions of Gautier d’Agoty’s books in various places and they’re always stunning.
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This will be amazing, not least because I shall be the host…!.
A timely reminder that this is just over a week away! Ticket link 👇
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RT @pietersender: Just a few weeks now until my next lecture for @TheLastTuesdayS where I’ll be talking about Dante’s Inferno and asking se….
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RT @surgeonshall: Our podcast "Beyond the Knife" has launched!. Join @AnatomicalCat as we learn about the history of anatomical studies and….
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RT @surgeonshall: Our podcast 'Beyond the Knife' launches on the 31st of January. Our Director of Heritage and Estates, Chanté St Clair I….
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RT @pietersender: I thought I’d do a quick recap of the year and some of the events I was involved in through 2024. Quite a mixed bag of go….
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RT @pietersender: Through me you pass into the city of woe:.Through me you pass into eternal pain:.Through me, among the people lost for e’….
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A decomposing figure holds up its own heart for contemplation. This transi was produced by sculptor François Pompon in the 19thC, and it’s in the Palais de beaux arts in Lille. It’s a reproduction of the one produced for the tomb of René de Chalon in Bar le Duc in the 16thC.
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On the shelf, it would look like an ordinary book, but when opened you’d find drawers to hide poison. The inside cover has a woodcut from Vesalius’ De Fabrica. The glass bottle says STATUT UM EST HOMINIBUS SEMEI MORI - it is well established that all men die once. From 1682
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RT @surgeonshall: We would like to congratulate our Senior Research Fellow, Professor Ken Donaldson on being awarded a Highly Commended cer….
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RT @pietersender: I’m running an author event with the excellent @edward_parnell for @argonaut_books on Tuesday next week. We’ll be discuss….
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RT @pietersender: If you long for a copy of I Am Stone whose value has been considerably reduced by the gnarled claw of Thee Editor then @B….
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