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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first human heart transplant. This talk will celebrate that achievement and consider what we have learned over those 50 years and what is to happen in the future.
This lecture questions this view and shows how, from the sixteenth century, aristocratic families deployed their collections and commissioned their buildings in both town and country in order to further their political and dynastic ambitions.
Different cancers offer differing hopes of prevention; from cervical or lung cancer (which are completely or largely preventable), to prostate cancer (for which there is no current strategy). What can be done, and what does the future hold?