The British Association of Urological Surgeons has a Virtual Museum. You can navigate through the timeline or visit rooms in the museum, including the toilets. Exhibits include instruments and diseases and procedures.

There is a page on institutions, including the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, founded in 1771. There is a gallery of clinicians, including two women, E Catherine Lewis, 1882 to 1965, and Helen Wingate, 1895 to 1985. Another biography, William Keith, 1802 to 1871, describes the state of hygiene in the operating theatre of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, which was "the favoured retiring room for the ward sister's cats". There are conference poster abstracts, and details of annual meetings from 1945. There are photographs by Eric Riches of the 1947 annual meeting, and a 1961 photograph of many men, and one woman. There is an art gallery of members' work, including Cathy Corbishley's cyanotypes on fabric, some on historical themes and one, Blood Film, made as a retirement present for a haematologist.

Whitechapel Gallery, London
Woven throughout this compelling collection of sculptures from the Max Mara prizewinner is a ferrous thread of hooks and spikes that drags the cruel history of slavery to the surface

Enter Dominique White’s tolling sea-bell of an exhibition and you will be hooked, then dragged down deep. Four big sculptures are dimly illuminated in a gallery creeping with blue shadows. It is meant to feel as if you are under the sea. Give it time and you will believe you are probing tangled fragments of a shipwreck. Tendrils curl in and out of a sunken cannon. A humanoid hunk of driftwood lashes at you with red swirling tentacles bearing sharp steely points.

Nautical history fascinates London-born White, 31. As winner of the Max Mara art prize for women, she received a six-month residency in Italy to research and develop this show. A film, with the glossy production standards you’d expect of the Max Mara fashion house, shows her exploring the vast harbour of Genoa with its 16th-century lighthouse. It includes interviews with leading Italian scholars of the history of the Mediterranean; one of them quotes Fernand Braudel’s classic work The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II.

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