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Lisa M Lane

Images from the History of Medicine (NLM) - 3 views

ihm.nlm.nih.gov/...all

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shared by Lisa M Lane on 04 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Lisa M Lane on 04 Jun 10
     
    Huge collection of images, including medical devices of all kinds.
David Hilton

New Offerings from the Otis Historical Archives | n m h m - 0 views

www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum/...new_offering.html

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shared by David Hilton on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 12 Aug 09
     
    Has some very large files containing images and documents related to medical history in the US in C19th and C20th.
Annabel Astbury

Wellcome Image Collection - 1 views

images.wellcome.ac.uk

shared by Annabel Astbury on 18 Jun 09 - Cached
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  • David Hilton on 18 Jun 09
     
    More from Wellcome Library. Images focussed on the themes indicated by the tags.
  • Annabel Astbury on 29 Aug 11
     
    medical and scientific images (historical and contemporary)
Kay Cunningham

Instruments for Science, 1800-1914: Scientific Trade Catalogs in Smithsonian Collections - 3 views

www.sil.si.edu/...Scientific-instruments

scientific instruments Smithsonian digital collections

shared by Kay Cunningham on 28 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • Kay Cunningham on 28 Feb 10
     
    Digitized versions of trade catalogs. Browse by company name, type of instrument, or category--acoustics, astronomy, balances, biology, chemistry, drawing instruments, education, electricity, engineering, geophysics, math, medical apparatus, meteorology, microscopy, natural history, natural philosophy, navigation, optics, photography, physics, spectroscopy, surveying. Images may be freely downloaded for personal, research and study purposes only; see the Permissions link forfurther details. Provided by the Smithsonian Institution
  • Carrie Kotcho on 09 Apr 12
     
    Kay - saw your post and thought you'd be interested in the new set of scientific teaching collection videos we've (NMAH) posted on YouTube. We are in the middle creating a website for these videos, and we'll be adding more over the next year or so. http://www.youtube.com/user/SmithsonianAmHistory?ob=0&feature=results_main
David Hilton

Wonders and Marvels: History Resources - 0 views

www.wondersandmarvels.com/...history-resources.html

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shared by David Hilton on 18 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • David Hilton on 18 Jun 09
     
    A blog which collects historical oddities and posts links to them. Blogger seems to be a well-trained historian and has something interesting stuff. Lots of cool links which I'll add to the group.
Javier E

The Panda Factories - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-breeding-death-captivity.html

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  • from the beginning, zoos saw panda cubs as a pathway to visitors, prestige and merchandise sales.On that, they have succeeded.
  • Today, China has removed more pandas from the wild than it has freed, The Times found. No cubs born in American or European zoos, or their offspring, have ever been released. The number of wild pandas remains a mystery because the Chinese government’s count is widely seen as flawed and politicized.
  • Because pandas are notoriously fickle about mating in captivity, scientists have turned to artificial breeding. That has killed at least one panda, burned the rectum of another and caused vomiting and injuries in others, records show. Some animals were partly awake for painful procedures. Pandas in China have flickered in and out of consciousness as they were anesthetized and inseminated as many as six times in five days, far more often than experts recommend.
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  • Breeding in American zoos has done little to improve genetic diversity, experts say, because China typically sends abroad animals whose genes are already well represented in the population.
  • Yet American zoos clamor for pandas, and China eagerly provides them. Zoos get attention and attendance. Chinese breeders get cash bonuses for every cub, records show. At the turn of the century, 126 pandas lived in captivity. Today there are more than 700.
  • Kati Loeffler, a veterinarian, worked at a panda breeding center in Chengdu, China, during the program’s early years. “I remember standing there with the cicadas screaming in the bamboo,” she said. “I realized, ‘Oh my God, my job here is to turn the well-being and conservation of pandas into financial gain.’”
  • Kimberly Terrell, who was director of conservation at the Memphis Zoo until 2017, said, “There was always pressure and the implication that cubs would bring money.” She noted that zoo administrators insisted on inseminating its aging female panda every year, despite concerns among zookeepers that it was unlikely to succeed. It never did.
  • “The people who actually worked day to day with these animals, who understand them best, were pretty opposed to these procedures,” she said. The zoo said its breeding efforts followed all program requirements.
  • The Times collected key documents and audiovisual materials from the Smithsonian archives and supplemented them with materials obtained through open-records requests. The trove, which spans four decades, includes medical records, scientists’ field notes and photographs and videos that offer crucial evidence of breeding procedures, side effects and the conditions in which pandas were held.
  • They show that the riskiest techniques happened in the program’s infancy, but that aggressive breeding continued at the National Zoo and at other institutions for years. A panda in Japan died during sperm collection in 2010. Chinese breeding centers, until recently, separated cubs from their mothers to make the females go back into heat.
  • This panda proliferation has prompted debates among zoo workers and scientists over whether it is ethical to subject animals to intensive breeding when they have no real prospect of being released into the wild. But those discussions have largely played out privately because researchers and zookeepers said that criticizing the program could hurt their ability to work in the field.
  • when a species is on the verge of extinction, conservationists sometimes make a last-ditch effort to save it.
  • with pandas, zoo administrators take chances again and again simply to make more cubs, while keeping the grimmest details from the public.
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