In The Press: UNSW Prognosis Magazine

About the Collection

One of the biggest contributions to the Slice image bank is a collection of macroscopic images from the Museum of Human Disease at UNSW Australia. The collaboration between the BEST Network, the School of Medical Sciences, and the Museum of Human Disease focused on photographing the museum’s historic specimen collection, as highlighted in a recent article in UNSW’s Prognosis Magazine.

In the early 1980s, staff in the School of Medical Sciences began photographing the specimens, and these images were the first donated to Slice. The digitization project resumed in 2015 with support from the BEST Network, completing the photography of the specimens. The entire Museum of Human Disease collection is now available on Slice.

Accessing the Collection

To view the collection, search for “UNSW_MOHD_*” on Slice or click here.

Educational Use

Digitizing the specimens makes them easily accessible to students and academics at other institutions. UNSW students can view and annotate the images using the Slice annotation tool while their teachers reference the original specimens in class. For example, Professor Nicholas Hawkins, the creator of Slice, circulates notes to his students after class based on these images.