Introduction: What matters in medical education? / John Nott and Anna Harris -- Architecture. Designing a discipline: Architecture for pathology in the interwar period / Annmarie Adams -- Art. Objectivity, art and medical images / Sally Wyatt -- Balloons. Lessons from a balloon / Christine den Harder and Anna Harris -- Cadavers. The geography of the dead and the movement of the living: Kinetic consciousness and the limits of the cadaver / Rachel Prentice -- Chalkboards. Anatomy of the chalkboard / Rachel Vaden Allison -- Cigarette papers. The cigarette paper, the embroiderer, and the gendered craft of vascular surgery / Paul Craddock -- Circulation. Circulated concepts, images and objects / Harro van Lente -- Dissecting rooms. 'The lady anatomist': fragmented bodies, photographic assemblage and the 'art' of dissection at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1895-98 / Jessica M. Dandona -- Film. 'See for yourself: Autopsy film as audio-visual mediation of learning experiences, c.1928-62 / Christian Bonah and Joël Danet -- Film. 'Now we are going to look at a piece of film': Projecting medicine in twentieth century medical education / Angela Saward -- Gardens. Groundwork for planetary health: Reimagining gardens in medical education / Stacey Langwick and Mary Mosha -- Gloves. The context of touch: gloves and pelvic exam / Kelly Underman -- Handbooks. Chinese medical illustrations and Communist materialism, 1950-1966 / Lan Li -- Hearts. The heart of the simulated matter: Interprofessional training practices of clinical care / Ivana Guarrasi -- Illustrations. Performed with care: Enacting accuracy in medical illustration / Drew Danielle Belsky -- Illustrations. Material images: Flesh on paper in twentieth-century surgical drawing / Harriet Palfreyman -- Illustrations. The Radford Collection: Exploring and experiencing the mid nineteenth-century midwifery lecture / Rebecca Whiteley -- Labour. Invisible work / Sally Wyatt -- Microscopes. The virtual microscope: Tracing knowledge through digital images / R. Claire Aland, Nicole Shepherd, Belinda Swyny and Mary-Louise Roy Manchadi -- Museums. The pathology museum at Korle Bu / Robert Kumoji and John Nott -- Nurservers. The nurserver / David Theodore -- Photographs. Typologies of fatness: Constitutional photography in Western medicine, c.1930-60 / Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen -- Place. Matters of place and affect / Rachel Vaden Allison and John Nott -- Props. Props in breaking bad news simulation / Kaisu Koski and Kirsten Ostherr -- Radiographs. Lasers, screens and models: The material assemblages of learning pattern recognition in radiography education / Peter D. Winter -- Simulation. Simulations in health professions education / Andrea Wojcik -- Skulls. Medical museums, materiality, and the traumatic brain injury of Phineas Gage / Denielle Elliott with Dominic Hall -- Stethoscopes. This thing, a stethoscope / Claire Wendland -- Textiles. Materialities of surgery: Learning through thread / Roger Kneebone and Fleur Oakes -- Ultrasounds. Developing ultrasound: Knowledge dissemination and technological change, 1945-1980 / Jakob Lehne -- Wounds. The fake wound: Thinking through materials in OSCE simulations / Andrea Wojcik, Victor Mogre, Anthony Amalba, Celia Yamile Rodriguez and Francis A. Abantanga -- Zebras. Zebras, not horses: On limits and margins of biomedical knowledge / Candida F. Sánchez Burmester -- Notes on contributors.