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The rise of the Science Museum under Henry Lyons / David Follett.

The Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine : a part of the Science Museum / [text by Brian Bracegirdle].

Making of the modern world : milestones of science and technology / edited by Neil Cossons with Andrew Nahum and Peter Turvey ; photographs by Philip Sayer.

Medicine : an imperfect science / edited by Nayasha McEnroe.

Behind the scenes at the Science Museum / Sharon Macdonald.

Artificial left arm and hand

A human hand anatomised and preserved for teaching.

Electroconvulsive Therapy Machine 

Museum collecting policies in modern science and technology : proceedings of a seminar held at the Science Museum, London, 3 November 1988.

Pasteur exhibition : Science Museum, South Kensington : 9th April - 26th May 1947.

Pain, passion, compassion, sensibility : a Wellcome Trust exhibition at the Science Museum : 12 February-20 June 2004.

[Human left arm].

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Museum collecting policies in modern science and technology : proceedings of a seminar held at the Science Museum, London, 3 November 1988.

Pasteur exhibition : Science Museum, South Kensington : 9th April - 26th May 1947.

Artificial left arm and hand

Pain, passion, compassion, sensibility : a Wellcome Trust exhibition at the Science Museum : 12 February-20 June 2004.

[Human left arm].

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Museum collecting policies in modern science and technology : proceedings of a seminar held at the Science Museum, London, 3 November 1988.

Pasteur exhibition : Science Museum, South Kensington : 9th April - 26th May 1947.

Artificial left arm and hand

Pain, passion, compassion, sensibility : a Wellcome Trust exhibition at the Science Museum : 12 February-20 June 2004.

[Human left arm].

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