Stories
- In pictures
Humans, animals and the sensory world
Artists and medics through the ages have made links between our discerning human senses and similar traits in animals. Discover how close we are to the earth’s other inhabitants.
- Article
Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
- Article
The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
- In pictures
How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
Catalogue
- Books
Guidelines on the care of laboratory animals and their use for scientific purposes.
Date: [1989], ©1989- Videos
The use of animals in medical research.
Date: Between 1900 and 1999- Archives and manuscripts
"Draft guidelines on the care of laboratory animals and their use for scientific purposes"
Date: 1988Reference: SA/PHY/G/1/72Part of: The Physiological Society
- Ephemera
- Online
Why do we use animals in medical research? / Understanding Animal Research.
Date: 2011- Books
The orgone energy accumulator : its scientific and medical use.
Date: c.1951