By Alexandra Rose Science and the City: Introduction By Ian Blatchford Lyon Playfair: chemist and commissioner, 1818–1858 By Sarah Wade Editorial By Manon Parry The valuable role of risky histories: exhibiting disability, race and reproduction in medical museums By Katy Barrett, Eleanor Crook, Marc Quinn and Studio Roso Artist interviews – new art for Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries By George Vasey Misbehaving Bodies: exhibiting illness By Jörn Wolters AIDS memorials from obituaries to artworks – a photo essay By Sarah Bond, Katie Dabin, Stewart Emmens, Selina Hurley and Natasha McEnroe Curating Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries By Ken Arnold and Danielle Olsen Contagious Cities: an international collaborative enquiry By Pandora Syperek, Sarah Wade, Miranda Lowe and Richard Sabin Curating Ocean Ecology at the Natural History Museum: Miranda Lowe and Richard Sabin in conversation with Pandora Syperek and Sarah Wade