Professor Peter Abrahams and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show Podcast

Peter Abrahams is fascinated in the human body.  As a young man he worked with the Peace Corp in the jungles of Sarawak, went on to train as a doctor, planned to become a surgeon but got side-tracked into writing a ground-breaking book, praised by his medical peers: Clinical Anatomy of Practical Procedures. He has taught and researched around the world, a pioneer in explaining how our body is pieced together. His work includes an Apple App, Aspects of Anatomy, used worldwide by medical students and doctors. He has been designing 3D anatomy for downloading onto mobile phones as well as doing 3D printing of human prosected specimens to preserve detailed knowledge for generations to come. He used his intricate knowledge of the human body to co-curate two exhibitions for the Royal collection Leonardo – Mechanics of Man at the Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh and Leonardo- anatomist at Buckingham Palace in London. He was also invited by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to help assess a collection of bronze statues believed to be the work of Michaelangelo. From there, he carried out the first ever in-depth scientific analysis of the anatomy of Michelangelo’s nude figures and made an anatomically labelled 3D video film for the exhibition. Peter’s latest book is the more down-to-earth TheHuman Body Colouring Book: Human Anatomy in 215 Illustrations for twelve-year-olds and over.  How do our bodies work? How do all our bits fit together.