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- In pictures
Dark Matter responds to ‘Epidemic threats and racist legacies’
Animated-collage artist Dark Matter brings his unique combination of live footage and archive imagery to respond to a text suggesting that the field of epidemiology emerged in the 19th century imbued with the doctrine of Western imperialism.
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- Article
The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
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The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy
Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?
Catalogue
- Videos
Movements of the rabbit's alimentary canal.
Date: 1950- Film
Movements of the rabbit's alimentary canal.
Date: 1950- Videos
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Movements of the rabbit's alimentary canal.
Date: 1950- Books
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The movements of respiration and their innervation in the rabbit : with a supplement on the relation of respiration to deglutition, and on the question of the existence of respiratory centres in the spinal cord / by Max Marckwald ; translated by Arthur Thomas Haig and revised by the author ; with an introductory note by John G. M'Kendrick.
Marckwald, Max.Date: 1888- Archives and manuscripts
Dr Mead correspondence: laboratory animal statements
Date: 1942Reference: WF/TRC/03/37Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd