To help navigate Luer’s story, we the editor have divided it into chapters, each with a brief introduction. Our little syringe sure can talk!
You can read each chapter independently or read the story all together.
As his story unfolds, we will make it available to you using the links below. The first chapters are available now.
Image from ‘Drugs that enslave : the opium, morphine, chloral and hashisch habit’ by H.H. Kane. 1881.
Wellcome Collection Public Domain.
Here are some questions to think about during this story:
- How should scientific research be funded; publicly or privately? Should the results of publicly-funded research be patented?
- How do you feel about blaming physicians or other health care workers?
- How do you see gender issues persist in health care?
- Do you appreciate the long and hard process of trying to make medicines safe? What do we learn about the Covid-19 vaccines?
- Are you prepared to accept that there are always likely to be uncertainties in medicine?
Sensitive Content: Please note, this exhibition is based around a the life of a hypodermic syringe and will therefore include images of needles, depictions and descriptions of addiction in art and literature (chapter 2), as well as other depictions of medical conditions associated with wounds.
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