Patrick Dempsey has confirmed reports suggesting he was reprimanded by Grey's Anatomy bosses after giving away plot secrets by posting a photo of a castmate online.

The actor admits he wasn't thinking about the impact of what he was doing when he tweeted shots of Eric Dane on the set of the medical drama.

Dane's character, Mark Sloane, was left for dead at the end of the last season of the medical drama.

In a pre-taped interview with chat show host Ellen DeGeneres, Dempsey explains, "I tweeted some pictures of this season and they were like a spoiler alert. All of the sudden I got all these phone calls from (the network) ABC, like, 'You have to take this picture down!'"

"I was just enthusiastic: 'This is a great image, I should shoot this.'"

But the damage was already done before Dempsey removed the shot of Dane: "Now we know he survives and comes back and he was just napping in between takes."

But Dane is planning an exit from the show - earlier this summer, the actor announced the upcoming ninth season of the show will be his last.

The new season of Grey's Anatomy is set to debut in the US later this month.

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Grey's star in trouble for posting spoiler

HIROSHIMA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Digital Solutions Inc. announces the release of English version of DS ANATOMY Head & Neck musculoskeletal anatomical application for iPad. The original application was released in May, 2012 for the Japanese market, and there were huge requests for the English version of this product from the global market since then. The English version is now downloadable from the Apple App Store from Sep. 12, 2012.

This app is very user friendly and it is sure that a user can be impressed with the reality of 3D models. A user can view the musculoskeletal systems in detail by zooming, hiding and rotating the realistic 3D models. And each musculoskeletal system has not only the explanation of features and action, but also the detailed pictures which help understanding. This app provides two contents of < Head and Neck Musculoskeletal system Anatomical model > and < Basic Knowledge of Myology > . Medical care beginner also can understand the basic knowledge of Myology.

View the single system at any angle even if it is overlapped. (Medical illustrations on the text cannot be viewed) Model the CG obtained from the CT scanned data of the real skull. Develop the accurate 3D models of bone, muscle, ligament, joint, membrane, salivary gland, endocrine, amygdala in detail by observing the actual donor body at the university. URL:http://ds-anatomy.com/eng/

This app can display the full model of head and neck anatomical structures and the muscles. A user can view the model at any angle as he likes. The all structures are displayed in full color. A user can switch the model in full view and in a single structure view, thus easily understand the accurate positional relationship of the structure.

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Digital Solutions Inc Released the English Version of DS ANATOMY H&N Musculoskeletal Anatomical App

Image Credit: Ron Tom/ABC

Apparently, at some point, my friends stopped watching Greys Anatomy and failed to inform me.

I discovered this last week when I was gushing to my friend Amy* about how excited I was for the show to return. Her response? Oh, I stopped watching that a long time ago. To be clear: I am NOT okay with this.

I sort of blame myself, actually. We used to bond over Greys Anatomy, and when I moved away, it became harder for us to have our weekly post-episode chat session. But Im now on a personal mission to get her and my other friends who have fallen off the McSexy wagon to start watching again. Because I think its too good for Greys fans (past and present!) to be missing.

When I tried to convince Amy to join me in this season, naturally, she whined: I want to! But I havent watched in forever! (To be specific, she estimated it was around the time George and Izzy happened.)

Normally, Id tell her to man-up and catch up using Netflix or (barf) read Wikipedia. But since were just about two weeks shy of the premiere, I recognize that not everyone can make it through several seasons of a TV show in that amount of time. (Some people sleep!) And, again, reading about several seasons of a show at one time is not satisfying. So, Im trying to prep a mini-marathon for her one that I plan on sharing with you very soon, too!

But to do so, I need to know the answer to the question below. I need a solid starting point. So, if you could, would you mind weighing in?

*Name changed to protect the innocent

Related: Private Practice scoop: True Blood star to play Taye Diggs mom EXCLUSIVE Greys Anatomy doc Jesse Williams marries

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: When did my friends stop watching?

The Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice will be on view at the OBJECTIFY THIS opening Friday, Sept. 7th in Chicago

In researching the use of female anatomy in medical textbooks for our upcoming OBJECTIFY THIS: Female Anatomy Dissected and Displayed exhibition, I came across The Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice, and could not believe what I saw.  I’ll give you a little background…

In 1971, at a time when anatomy hours were being drastically cut, a trio of Duke professors set out to write an anatomy textbook that was different from the rest.  One of the professors, Dr. R. Fredrick Becker had an affinity for hanging female Playboy centerfolds up in his office to teach surface anatomy.  This would inspire one of the most unique and somewhat scandalous anatomy textbook of our time.

The professors, Becker, James S. W. Wilson, and John A. Gehweiler, set out to write a textbook in an “easy-going, literary style so that any student could read ahead on his own without difficulty.” Furthermore, they go on to state their inspiration to use seductive female nudes to display surface anatomy,

“In our own student days we discovered that studying surface anatomy with a wife or girl friend proved to be not only instructive, but highly entertaining. Since the majority of medical students still tend to be males, we have liberalized this text by making use of the female form. But, more to the point, we have done so because a large portion of your future patients will be women and few texts have pointed out surface landmarks on the female.”

They were quite liberal in their use of female nudes of the pin-up girl variety as you can see in the images above.  And the “easy-going, literary style,” often lent itself to cheeky comments about women.  In the discussion about the effects of UV light on skin, the authors state, “the contrast between exposed and unexposed parts of the epidermis is quite stark when the bathing suit is removed.”

In the preface of the textbook, the authors justify their use of gorgeous females to show surface anatomy,

“Perhaps we should have included photographs of garden-variety, American males and females who have let their physiques go to pot.  Instead, we used female models as model females.  The student will see the ordinary specimen every day.  Only on rare occasions will the attractive, well-turned specimen appear before him for consultation.  He should be prepared for this pleasant shock. For the growing ranks of female medics, we inlcuded the body beautiful of a robust, healthy male.  We are sorry that we cannot make available the addresses of the young ladies who grace our pages. Our wives burned our little address books at our last barbecue get-together.”

Needless to say, the book was eventually banned from publication at a time when the feminist movement was on everyone’s radar.  It has now become a bit of a collectors item and many university libraries have listed it as “missing” from their collection.  I know because I tried borrowing a copy with absolutely no luck.  Thankfully a Street Anatomy fan reached out and allowed us to borrow the book for our exhibition!

Feminism aside, I do have to say that after going through the book myself, it is rather fun and entertaining.  The writing style is conversational and the “pin-up girl” photographs make learning surface anatomy quite engaging.  The women in the photographs are not the stick thin models that we are used to seeing today, but curvy healthy women that happen to be in very feminine and oftentimes seductive poses.  While not everyone will agree with me, I do applaud the authors for trying to create a different experience in anatomy education and overall for having fun with it.

Is it objectification of women or is it simply appreciation of the beauty that is the female form?  You can decide by seeing the book in person at the OBJECTIFY THIS exhibition opening this Friday September 7th at Design Cloud Gallery in Chicago!

RSVP for OBJECTIFY THIS via Facebook!

To read more about the Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice, view the journal article “The pornographic anatomy book? The curious tale of the Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice.” [Halperin EC. The pornographic anatomy book? The curious tale of the AnatomicalBasis of Medical Practice. Acad Med. 2009 Feb;84(2):278-83. PubMed PMID:19174685.]

[A huge thank you to Charlotte W. for lending the textbook for the OBJECTIFY THIS exhibition!]

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Patrick Dempsey has confirmed reports suggesting he was reprimanded by Greys Anatomy bosses after giving away plot secrets by posting a photo of a cast-mate online.

The actor admits he wasn't thinking about the impact of what he was doing when he tweeted shots of Eric Dane on the set.

Dane's character, Mark Sloane, was left for dead at the end of the last season of the medical drama.

In a pre-taped interview with chat show host Ellen DeGeneres, which will air this week, Dempsey explains, "I tweeted some pictures of this season and they were like a spoiler alert. All of the sudden I got all these phone calls from (the network) ABC, like, 'You have to take this picture down!'

"I was just enthusiastic: 'This is a great image, I should shoot this.'"

But the damage was already done before Dempsey removed the shot of Dane: "Now we know he survives and comes back and he was just napping in between takes."

But Dane is planning an exit from the show - earlier this summer, the actor announced the upcoming ninth season of the show will be his last. The new season of Grey's Anatomy is set to debut in the US later this month.

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I have just been alerted to two fabulous looking death and culture conferences both of which are now soliciting papers! Full info for each follows. Apply away!

1) Art and  Death: A Series of Three Workshops
1 November 2012, 21 February and 23 May 2013
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

Call for Papers
Submission by 20 September 2012 for workshop 1 (1 November 2012): Anticipation and Preparation

A series of three workshops will be held at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2012-2013 to explore the inter-relationship between art and death. These workshops have arisen from an informal group of doctoral students with shared interests in funerary monuments. The workshops will be structured to recognize that the certainty of death is accompanied by the foreknowledge and uncertainty of what may come after, and that visual representations of these phases have varied over time and between countries. The first workshop will focus on the images and objects related to the impact that the certainty of death has on individuals and the community; the second on art in the context of dying, death and burial; and the final one on representations of the perceived fate of body and soul after death, as well as the continuation of a relationship (if only in memory) between the living and the dead.

Subjects for the workshops could include, but are not limited to:

Workshop 1 (1 November 2012): Anticipation and Preparation
•    Death insurance? Religious gifts and foundations
•    Protective objects and amulets
•    Tombs commissioned during a lifetime, testamentary desire and fulfilment
•    Contemplating images of death, warnings to the living
•    The cult of the macabre, images of illness and decay
•    Apocalyptic visions

Workshop 2: (21 February 2013): Death and Dying
•    A ‘good death’
•    War and violence
•    Funerals/Professional mourners
•    Funerary monuments, memorial architecture, cemetery design
•    Post-mortem portraits
•    Images of the corpse in painting, sculpture, film, photography, etc
•    Crucifixion imagery
•    Death in museum collections

Workshop 3 (23 May 2013) Life after Death
•    Images of the soul /resurrected or re-incarnated body
•    Depictions of the afterlife
•    The incorruptible body, saints, relics and reliquaries
•    Remembering the dead, commemoration in art and/or performance
•    The ‘immortality’ of the artist, post-mortem reputations

Format and Logistics:
•    Length of paper: 20 minutes
•    Four papers per workshop
•    Location: Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art
•    Timing: 10am-midday
•    Expenses: funds are not available to cover participants’ expenses

We welcome proposals relating to all periods, media and regions (including non-European) and see this as an opportunity for doctoral and early post-doctoral students to share their research.

Please send proposals of no more than 250 words to: Jessica.Barker[at]courtauld.ac.uk and Ann.Adams[at]courtauld.ac.uk by the following dates:

•    20 September 2012 for workshop 1 (1 November 2012): Anticipation and Preparation
•    10 January 2013 for workshop 2 (21 February 2013): Death and Dying
•    11 April 2013 for workshop 3 (23 May 2013): Life after Death

For planning purposes, it would be helpful to have an indication of interest in the later workshops, in advance of submission of a proposal.

Organised by Jessica Barker and Ann Adams (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

2) Graduate Student Conference: “Death: the Cultural Meaning of the End of Life”
January 24–25, 2013
LUCAS (Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society)

This conference aims to explore how death has been represented and conceptualized, from classical antiquity to the modern age, and the extent to which our perceptions and understandings of death have changed (or remained the same) over time. The wide scope of this theme reflects the historical range of LUCAS’s (previously called LUICD) three research programs (Classics and Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and Contemporary Studies), as well as the intercontinental and interdisciplinary focus of many of the institute’s research projects.

The LUCAS Graduate Conference welcomes papers from all disciplines within the humanities. The topic of your proposal may address the concept of death from a cultural, historical, classical, artistic, literary, cinematic, political, economic, or social viewpoint.

Questions that might be raised include: How have different cultures imagined the end of life? What is the role of art (literature, or cinema) in cultural conceptions of death? How might historical or contemporary conceptualizations of death be related to the construction of our subjectivity and cultural identity? What is the cultural meaning(s) of death? To what extent has modern warfare changed our perceptions of death? How is death presented in the media and how has this changed? In what ways has religion influenced our reflections on death and the afterlife?

Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) to present a 20-minute paper to lucasconference2013[at]gmail.com.

The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2012.

For further information on the first workshop, click here. For further information on the second conference, click here. Special thanks to Lisa Kereszi for turning me onto the latter!

Image: Dead Toreador (Torero Mort). Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)

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This Thursday, if you are in London or environs, please join Morbid Anatomy and The Last Tuesday Society for a free and gin-drenched opening party for my new exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy"! Full details follow. Hope very much to see you there!

"Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy" Exhibition Opening Party
Date: Thursday September 6
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: The Last Tuesday Society
Address: ***Offsite at 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP
Admission: FREE
Produced by Morbid Anatomy
Click here to download Invitation

This Thursday, September 6, if you find yourself in London town, please join us for an opening party for an exhibition of photographs by Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Blog, The Morbid Anatomy Library and Observatory with waxworks by Eleanor Crook and Sigrid Sarda.

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 This Saturday, September 8, you are cordially invited to join myself and a host of distinguished scholars, makers, and museum folk as we investigate, via a one day symposium termed "The Congress for Curious Peoples," some of the provocative intersections explored in the exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy," on view at the London-based Last Tuesday Society until the end of the month.

This first ever UK edition of The Congress for Curious Peoples will feature participants from The Wellcome Collection, The Wellcome Library, and The Gordon Museum of Pathology, as well as some of my very favorite artists, thinkers and scholars, and will take on such heady topics as enchantment and enlightenment, or the sublimation of the magical into the rational world; the secret life of objects, or the non-rational allure of objects and the psychology of collecting; and beautiful death and incorruptible bodies, or the shared drive to immortalize the human body and aestheticize death in both medicine and Catholicism, and will

Full info follows; hope very very much to see you there!

Congress for Curious Peoples: London Edition
Date: Saturday September 8
Time: 11am - 5:30 pm
Admission: £15.00 (Tickets here)
Location: The Last Tuesday Society
Address: 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP
Produced by Morbid Anatomy

11-12: Introduction by Morbid Anatomy's Joanna EbensteinKeynote panel: Enchantment and Enlightenment (20 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)

• Moderated by Joanna Ebenstein
• David L. Martin, Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Modernity and the Sacred
• Simon Werrrett, Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

12-1: Lunch

1-2:30 The Secret Life of Objects: The Allure of Objects and the Psychology of Collecting (20 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)

• Moderated by Ross MacFarlane, Wellcome Library
• Petra Lange-Berndt, University College London
• Kate Forde, The Wellcome Collection

2:30-3:00 Break

3:00-5:30 Beautiful Death and Incorruptible Bodies: Eternal Life and Aestheticized Death in Medicine and Catholicism (15 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)

• Moderated by John Troyer, Center for Death and Society, University of Bath 
• Eleanor Crook, Wax artist
• Gemma Angel, PhD Student ad UCL History of Art
• Anna Maerker, Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775–1815
• Simon Chaplin, Wellcome Library
• Sigrid Sarda, Wax artist
• William Edwards, The Gordon Museum

You can find out more by clicking here, and purchase tickets by clicking here.

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Healthline Networks has launched an iPad version of its BodyMaps application to provide 3D graphics and animations of the human anatomy fit for the Apple tablet.

The application developer, which operates a medical reference site called Healthline.com, launched the app on Sept. 4. Healthline introduced the Web-based version of BodyMaps in May 2011 as a consumer education tool, and now the iPad app is suitable for health care workers and educators, according to the company.

BodyMaps incorporates more than 1,000 anatomical structures and 30 rotatable models of parts of the body for both males and females.

Cardiologists, neurologists and orthopedists will particularly benefit from the detail of the human anatomy presented in the app. The iPad will allow users to zoom in on the image, mark up body features and share the notations through email.

In addition, the iPad version allows users to move up or down to various sections of the body and choose a male/female toggle. The iPad's Retina high-definition display will make the details of the anatomy easier to study, Healthline reported.

The touch-screen features of the Apple tablet allows users to pinch, expand, drag, and tap on the images. Users can also share images on Facebook or through email.

General Electric funded the creation of the app through its Healthymagination initiative, which promotes the development of health care technology to improve care and lower costs.

Visible Productions produced the 3-D modeling, high resolution graphics and animations, as well as 200 videos, which cover various health conditions and related symptoms and procedures. Healthline developed the app, including its written content.

From layers of muscle to organs and bones, the rich detail of the app allows patients to watch videos and view 3D images to see how osteoarthritis affects the knee or appendicitis affects the abdomen.

Doctors, nurses, chiropractors and physical therapy students will be able to use the app to get an introduction to the anatomy or complement other anatomy apps, according to the company.

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iPad App From Healthline Offers 3D View of Human Anatomy

Tonight marks the beginning of the Morbid Anatomy residency at London's fantastic Last Tuesday Society; this week, join us for a Granta magazine medicine issue launch; an illustrated lecture by Rogue Taxidermist Robert Marbury and another by Hunterian Museum director Sam Alberti on the history of medical museums; a free, gin-drenched opening party for my exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy (from whence the above image); and a London-edition of "The Congress for Curious Peoples: a one-day symposium featuring a host of scholars, writers, and practitioners exploring in panels, illustrated lectures and discussion the intersections explored by the exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy."

More on all events below; and please note: all events will take place at The Last Tuesday Society, 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP (map here). Hope to see you at one or more of these terrific events!

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Monday 3rd September 2012
Granta Magazine - Medicine Issue Launch: A Spoonful of Fiction: A Granta Salon
Doors at 6 pm, Show commences at 7 pm.

In this special edition of Liars’ League, actors from the live fiction salon perform stories of addiction, healing and the history of medicine by Rose Tremain and Suzanne Rivecca, as featured in Granta 120: Medicine. Then, writer and broadcaster Colin Grant (Bageye at the Wheel, I & I: Marley, Tosh and Wailer), in conversation with a Granta editor, tells how he pursued and then quit medical school and reads from his new autobiographical novel extracted in granta.com.

Admission price includes a copy of "Granta 120: Medicine and Hendrick's Gin and Tonic."
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Tuesday 4th September 2012
Robert Marbury - Rogue Taxidermy in the Digital Age
Doors at 6 pm, Talk commences at 7 pm

When Robert Marbury was 19 years old, he necked with Ricki Lake on camera. At age 29, he spent a year sailing in Indonesia, where he says his ship was attacked by pirates.Four years later, he was one of the three co-founders of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists.

Known as a vegan taxidermist, Robert Marbury documents the existence of little known wild and feral plush animals inhabiting our urban environments. With tongue firmly in cheek, through his Urban Beast Project, Marbury hopes to garner attention and general concern for the plight of such strange creatures. As he describes on his webpage: while most of the Urban Beasts exhibited on his site "have met the end of their species, it is our hope that with exposure and attention many other Beasts will be saved."

Tonight's talk will touch on image sharing, legal limitations, collecting, renewed interest in gaff and travel taxidermy as well as death and the impulse to make contact.

Robert Marbury is an artist from Baltimore Maryland. He is the Director and co-Founder of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists.
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Wednesday 5th September 2012
Dr Sam Alberti of The Hunterian Museum on the History of Medical Museums
Doors at 6 pm, Talk commences at 7 pm

In the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical museums, Morbid Curiosities traces the afterlives of diseased body parts. It asks how they came to be in museums, what happened to them there, and who used them. This book is concerned with the macabre work of pathologists as they dismembered corpses and preserved them: transforming bodies into material culture. The fragmented body parts followed complex paths - harvested from hospital wards, given to one of many prestigious institutions, or dispersed at auction. Human remains acquired new meanings as they were exchanged and were then reintegrated into museums as physical maps of disease. On shelves curators juxtaposed organic remains with paintings, photographs, and models, and rendered them legible with extensive catalogues that were intended to standardize the museum experience. And yet visitors refused to be policed, responding equally with wonder and disgust. Morbid Curiosities is a history of the material culture of medical knowledge in the age of museums.

Sam Alberti is Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which includes the renowned Hunterian Museum. He is interested in the past, present and future of medical and natural history collections. His books include Nature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum (2009), The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie (2011) and Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2011).
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Thursday 6th September 2012
Opening Reception for "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy" An exhibition of photographs by Joanna Ebenstein with waxworks by Eleanor Crook and Sigrid Sarda.
Free and open to the public
6-8 pm

In this exhibition, you will be introduced to tantalizing visions of death made beautiful, uncanny monuments to the human dream of life eternal. You will meet "Blessed Ismelda Lambertini," an adolescent who fell into a fatal swoon of overwhelming joy at the moment of her first communion with Jesus Christ, no
w commemorated in a chillingly beautiful wax effigy in a Bolognese church; The Slashed Beauty, swooning with a grace at once spiritual and worldly as she makes a solemn offering of her immaculate viscera; Saint Vittoria, with slashed neck and golden ringlets, her waxen form reliquary to her own powerful bones; and the magnificent and troubling Anatomical Venuses, rapturously ecstatic life-sized wax women reclining voluptuously on silk and velvet cushions, asleep in their crystal coffins, awaiting animation by inquisitive hands eager to dissect them into their dozens of demountable, exactingly anatomically correct, wax parts.

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Saturday 8th September
'Congress for Curious People' One-Day Seminar - London Edition
11am - 5:30 pm

A one day symposium featuring a host of scholars, writers, and practitioners exploring in panels, illustrated lectures and discussion the intersections explored by the exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy." Themes discussed will include enchantment and enlightenment, or the sublimation of the magical into the rational world; the secret life of objects, or the non-rational allure of objects and the psychology of collecting; and beautiful death and incorruptible bodies, or the shared drive to immortalize the human body and aestheticize death in both medicine and Catholicism. 

11-12:Introduction by Moderator Joanna Ebenstein
Keynote panel: Enchantment and Enlightenment
(20 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)
Moderated by Joanna Ebenstein
•        David L. Martin, Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Modernity and the Sacred
•        Simon Werrrett, Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

12-1: Lunch

1-2:30 The Secret Life of Objects: The Allure of Objects and the Psychology of Collecting
(20 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)
Moderated by Ross MacFarlane, Wellcome Library
•        Ross MacFarlane, The Wellcome Library
•        Petra Lange-Berndt, University College London
•        Kate Forde, The Wellcome Collection

2:30-3:00 break

3:00-5:30 Beautiful Death and Incorruptible Bodies: Eternal Life and aestheticized death in medicine and Catholicism
(15 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)
Moderated by John Troyer, Center for Death and Society, University of Bath
•        Eleanor Crook, Wax artist
•        John Troyer, Center for Death and Society, University of Bath
•        Gemma Angel, PhD Student ad UCL History of Art
•        Anna Maerker, Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775–1815
•        Simon Chaplin, Wellcome Library
•        Sigrid Sarda, Wax artist
•        William Edwards, The Gordon Museum

And onward and upward in the weeks to come:

• Monday, 10th September 2012, 7 PM
  Ronni Thomas and The Real Tuesday Weld - 'Midnight Archive' screening
• Tuesday, 11th September 2012, 7 PM
  Martin Clayton on Leonardo Da Vinci and Dissection
• Wednesday, 12th September 2012, 7 PM
  Curious Cafés of the Belle Epoque with Vadim Kosmos
• Monday, 17th September 2012, 7 PM
  Gemma Angel on the History of Human Tattoos
• Wednesday, 19th September 2012, 7 PM
  Field Trip to St Bart's Pathology Museum with Lecture by Joanna Ebenstein
• Thursday, 20th September 2012, 7 PM
  Paul Craddock - History of Blood Transfusions
• Tuesday, 25th September 2012, 7 PM
  Dr. James Kennaway - Bad Vibrations
• Wednesday, 26th September 2012, 7 PM
  Dr. Pat Morris - Extreme Taxidermy: Elephants and Humans
• Thursday, 27th September 2012, 7 PM
  Royal Raymond Rife and his Oscillating Beam Ray with Mark Pilkington
• Sunday, 30th September 2012, 7 PM
  Eleanor Crook on Plastic Surgery of the World Wars

You can find out more--and order tickets--for all events, click here.

Image: The "Venerina" or "little Venus," Anatomical Venus by Clemente Susini, 1782, Palazzo Poggi, Bologna; on view as part of the "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy"exhibition opening this Thursday. © Joanna Ebenstein, 2012

The piece is described on the museum website thusly: "The agony of a young woman is represented in her last instant of life as she abandons herself to death voluptuously and completely naked. The thorax and abdomen can be opened, allowing the various parts to be disassembled so as to simulate the act of anatomic dissection."

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The interactive anatomy tool that facilitates patient-doctor communication and is "social media ready"

Phones won't ever replace doctors. An app for medical diagnosis can't put a gentle hand on your shoulder. It can't calm you with whispers and a warming embrace. Its fingertips aren't soft, smooth, inquisitive. It doesn't have the robust intuition, the seasoned experience, the authority to which you can surrender control...

But a new app from the good people at General Electricand Healthline can help doctors and patients get on the same page about anatomy -- what's hurting whom, and who's doing what where to help it. Among other things, it's designed to help physicians communicate as a visual aid in discussing diagnoses and treatment plans.That's something an app can do very well. It's called BodyMaps, and it involves this spinning apparition:

She does not grant wishes or respond to emotional cues. You can, though, make her spin around quickly (or slowly, slowly), so the app scores satisfactorily in the rubric for "imparts sense of omnipotence."

Beyond detailed anatomy, it also has 200 concise tutorials like "Why do I sneeze?"

Hint: It's related to the sneezing center.

The real highlight of BodyMaps, though, is the feature where you can annotate the images by drawing with your finger -- to illustrate your point. Because not all doctors are good with words, and not all words are good with doctors. You can only write in blue, black, or green. (Not red!)

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Body Maps: See All Your Parts, Skin Removal Not Required

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) TVLine is reporting Grey's Anatomy and 24 actress Kim Raver will join NBC's new drama Revolution in a recurring role.

The site doesn't give much insight into Raver's character but does describe her role as "juicy."

According to NBC, Revolution takes 15 years in the future and shows the aftermath of a global blackout where the entire world lost power. The post-apocalyptic drama is filming in the Port City.

A special VIP screening of the pilot episode will be shown Thursday night at Thalian Hall. The event is free, but you need to have a ticket to get in. Make sure to get there early, because seating is first come, first serve.

If you didn't get a ticket to the screening, you can still watch the pilot episode before its television premiere on NBC September 17 at 10:00 p.m. Click here to watch the pilot episode now.

Raver, 43, most recently played Dr. Teddy Altman on Grey's Anatomy for three seasons before leaving the show in May.

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Reports: 'Grey's Anatomy's' Kim Raver joins NBC's 'Revolution'

Sep 5, 2012 07:56 PM ET by Kate Stanhope Follow katestanhope Tweet

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Grey's Anatomy and 24 grad Kim Raver is joining NBC's new drama Revolution in a recurring role, TVLine reports.

Executive-produced by J.J. Abrams, Revolution takes place 15 years in the future and shows the aftermath of a global blackout where the entire world lost power. The cast includes Billy Burke, Elizabeth Mitchell, Tracy Spiridakos and Giancarlo Esposito. The full Revolution pilot can be viewed early here.

Justified's David Meunier joins Revolution

Little is known about Raver's character other than that she will play a pivotal role.

Raver, 43, most recently played Dr. Teddy Altman on Grey's Anatomy for three seasons before exiting in May. She is also known for her role as Audrey Raines on 24, as well her work on The Nine, Lipstick Jungle and Third Watch.

Revolution premieres on Monday, Sept. 17 at 10/9c on NBC.

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Street Anatomy has teamed up with Annabel de Vetten of UK based Conjurer’s Kitchen to create anatomical heart cakes for our OBJECTIFY THIS exhibition coming up next Friday (September 7) in Chicago.  We are extremely excited for this opportunity to share some anatomical food with the gallery audience on opening night!

Annabel creates a range of creatively unique cakes and other goodies from artistic to anatomical.  She’s one of the fantastic cake makers participating in this years Eat Your Heart Out anatomical bake shop at St. Bart’s Pathology Museum in London.

Big thank you to AnatomyUK for making this happen!

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Miss Insomnia Tulip created these anatomical macarons for Eat Your Heart Out, and aside from looking pretty damn delicious, they are informative!

The detail on them is really great and it’s making me hope she takes it further and creates anatomical macarons of animals, monsters, aliens, and any other non-humans.

Additionally, she has some other amazing anatomy related work on her flickr, like eyeballs in jars and heart shaped macarons.

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As if he weren't already adorable enough, "Grey's Anatomy" star Jesse Williams will have fans cooing with adoration over the details of his recent wedding to longtime girlfriend Aryn Drake-Lee.

The 31-year-old actor, who portrays Dr. Jackson Avery on Shonda Rhimes' hit ABC medical drama, wed Drake-Lee, 32, in a "romantic, elegant evening ceremony" on Saturday, People magazine reports.

Williams and real estate broker Drake-Lee were together for more than five years before taking the next step with their Los Angeles wedding. The couple met in New York, where Williams was teaching at the time.

Their weekend nuptials were attended by close family and friends, and the love in the air was evident, one attendee told People magazine.

"Jesse was beaming with joy throughout the entire ceremony," the onlooker dished. "It was the perfect night with lots of smiling, laughing and emotion. You could feel the love they had for each other. They're madly in love!"

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We’ve featured the work of Italian artist Vacon Sartirani many times in the past (Super8 Magazine, Threadless T-Shirt submission, and a hand autopsy)—the man produces a lot, much of it with a fun anatomical twist.  This is his latest series of colored pencil drawings that layer elements of anatomy, botany, marine animals, and architecture.  Is that a seahorse?

View more of Vacon’s work at vaconsartirani.com!

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One of the great joys of Greys Anatomys last season was watching the relationship between Dr. Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) and Dr. Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) develop further, as the doctors worked together on the smallest patients inside Seattle Grace Mercy Wests neo-natal unit. The special kinship between the pair is on display in the upcoming, Sept. 4 DVD release of Greys Anatomy: The Complete Eighth Season in a fun little deleted scene that EW has here for you exclusively.

The never-before-seen scene comes from the January episode Suddenly and finds Karev and Robbins performing surgery on one of the hospitals newborns. Huh, Karev says unceremoniously, in the middle of operating. And thats what Robbins takes issue with: Huh? You dont Huh? when you have an open newborn baby on the table, the motherly/teacherly doctors scolds Karev. You know what? Im taking over. Karev continues his mumbling, and thats where the funny comes in between this pair: Hey! Use your words, Karev! Robbins implores him. Or youre not making another cut.

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