But now we know o so much better, don't we, my darlings?

Mar 02, 2009 20:28


Okay, what's not to love about images of wax models of syphilitic sores, and not just one, two anti-masturbation devices (which in a selection of a mere dozen medical bizarreries is perhaps one too many?)

But what's with describing this selection from a new Science Museum multimedia website, Brought To Life, as A dozen bizarre devices from medicine's dark past?

Woah, MAI WHIG HISTRY OV MEDSIN, LET ME SHOW U IT.

Tut, New Scientist, I say tut-tut.

stds, health, medicalisation, unexamined-assumptions, weirdness, journalism, masturbation, preconceptions, museums, snarkiness

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