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Don’t miss: 500 years of women in medicine and the future of design

Explore the female midwives and doctors who have worked in a male-dominated world for centuries, plus robotics visionary Yamanaka Shunji brings his designs to London

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Listen

On 14 January from 7pm GMT on BBC Radio 6 Music, Marc Riley hosts a session from psychedelic quartet , whose new album Mogic explores artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, love and waterfalls.

Visit

Yamanaka Shunji brings his designs to London’s Japan House. Expect glimpses into the future of biomimicry, prosthetics and 3D printing when Prototyping in Tokyo opens on 16 January.

Last chance

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (pictured above) was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the UK, but women have worked in medicine for centuries. We have until 18 January to explore : 500 years of women in medicine at the Royal College Of Physicians in London.

Watch

In cinemas from 18 January, is Marcus Lindeen’s documentary account of Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés’s Acali experiment, which set 11 purposely mismatched people adrift in the Atlantic.

Read

Peter Bloom’s book (Pluto Press) will scare you; decompress with Paul Dolan’s rather more reassuring (Allen Lane).

Topics: Anthropology / Books / Exhibition / Medicine / Robots

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