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Anatomical Animation by Frank Armitage

Types: All, Educational & Instructional, Animation, Color, Sound

Beware the Wind

Types: Educational & Instructional, Animation, Color, Sound

Countdown to Collision

Types: Educational & Instructional, Color, Sound

Don’t Leave It All to the Experts

Types: All, Educational & Instructional, Animation, Color, Sound

John B. Calhoun Film 7.1

Types: Research & Documentation, Color, Sound

LSD: Insight or Insanity?

Types: Educational & Instructional, Research & Documentation, Color, Sound

Man Alive!

Types: Educational & Instructional, Animation, Color, Sound

Nurse-Patient Interaction

Types: All, Educational & Instructional, Color, Sound

Reconnaissance for Yellow Fever in the Nuba Mountains, Southern Sudan

Types: Research & Documentation, Color, Sound

Rodney

Types: Educational & Instructional, Animation, Color, Sound

The Run Around

Types: Educational & Instructional, Animation, Color, Sound

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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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