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CT scanning the centuries-old head of Jeremy Bentham
Cutting-edge medical imaging techniques have revealed that Jeremy Bentham, the Georgian philosopher and reformer, suffered from chronic toothache and a jaw riddled with arthritis.
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Cutting-edge medical imaging techniques have revealed that Jeremy Bentham, the Georgian philosopher and reformer, suffered from chronic toothache and a jaw riddled with arthritis. In a new short film, Bentham Revealed , an interdisciplinary team of UCL scientists, curators and Bentham scholars describes the project to carry out advanced CT scanning and 3D modeling of the thinker's preserved head.
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