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Knowing Blood / Sang sens Exhibition runs January to August 2016
Osler Library of the History of Medicine

Curated by Darren N. Wagner and Nick Whitfield

Powerful and evocative yet multifarious and enigmatic—blood seeps into our everyday experiences. Varied cultural and social perspectives have blood to be at once universal, divisive, and transformative, carrying meanings ranging from health, personhood, and sex to identity, religion, and family. How have these many meanings coloured how blood has been known and observed in modern medicine? Our response is curated in six cases highlighting distinctive but closely interrelated themes, all supplemented with a wealth of multimedia discoverable through the touch table. These texts, images, and objects united from across and beyond McGill University’s collections reveal blood’s many facets: as an forensic object bearing hidden truths and an experimental subject represented in images and models; as a lurid signal of lethal pathogens and a crimson beacon of lifesaving treatments; as scattered cells stained in pastel hues on glass slides and schematic maps categorizing the world into different types; as an excess quantity to be let into barber-surgeon’s basins and a pulse to be measured with sophisticated instruments. We invite you to explore this rich 400-year history of knowing and observing the most vital of bodily fluids.

Film screening in conjunction with Knowing Blood / Sang sens! Come one, come all, March 8 at 6pm!
26/02/2016

Film screening in conjunction with Knowing Blood / Sang sens! Come one, come all, March 8 at 6pm!

Wednesday's vernissage was a rousing success with 50+ folks partaking of the food, wine and blood! Thanks to all who att...
31/01/2016

Wednesday's vernissage was a rousing success with 50+ folks partaking of the food, wine and blood! Thanks to all who attended!

All's ready for tomorrow's vernissage - see you at 6 bells!
27/01/2016

All's ready for tomorrow's vernissage - see you at 6 bells!

Open slide method of blood typing. For when you just need to know.The Blood Bank by Kilduffe DeBakey.
12/01/2016

Open slide method of blood typing. For when you just need to know.
The Blood Bank by Kilduffe DeBakey.

When your pal wants his tongue bled, Discorsi di Pietro Paolo Magni (1626) has you covered.
06/01/2016

When your pal wants his tongue bled, Discorsi di Pietro Paolo Magni (1626) has you covered.

05/01/2016
Distribution of bood group gene A in the aboriginal populations of the world. By A.E.Mourant, 1954.
04/01/2016

Distribution of bood group gene A in the aboriginal populations of the world. By A.E.Mourant, 1954.

A taste of the exhibit: detail from spectacular frontispiece of Robert Fludd's treatise Pulsus, 1630.
23/12/2015

A taste of the exhibit: detail from spectacular frontispiece of Robert Fludd's treatise Pulsus, 1630.

Today in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine: "Keeping an animal in oxygen" from Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson's...
23/12/2015

Today in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine: "Keeping an animal in oxygen" from Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson's book The Cause of the Coagulation of the Blood, 1858.

18/12/2015

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