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NLM Historical Audiovisuals Collection

Infographic describing NLM historical audiovisual collections: 30 percent uncataloged, 70percent cataloged, 450 titles digitzed.
Learn about the world-renowned historical audiovisuals collection of nearly 10,000 titles from the silent era to the present.

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Title screen of Competition and Dominance Hierarchies in Rats, 1940. Shared Suffering Onscreen: Animal Experiments and Emotional Investment in the Films of O.H. Mowrer

The history of animal testing and the history of the life sciences go hand in hand. Yet as Ben Schultz-Figueroa argues in this essay, these experiments were always fraught, as scientists had to manage their own emotional entanglement with their animal subjects, who often were killed or maimed in the process of the experiment. This is the “shared suffering” of the lab, and Schultz-Figueroa’s work prompts us to think about it not only as a guidepost for understanding the ethics of animal experiments but also as a methodological tool to understand visual images, specifically films, from the history of science. Mowrer’s films contain traces of the burdened relationship between him and his rodent test subjects.

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Two women dance in a living room. Prefrontal lobotomy in chronic schizophrenia (c1944)
This film shows the improvement that can result from prefrontal lobotomy in chronic psychotics. Four patients are shown before and after the operation.

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