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. 2016 Mar 14;29(2):133-158.
doi: 10.1080/08949468.2016.1131494. Epub 2016 Feb 6.

Seeing Cellular Debris, Remembering a Soviet Method

Ann H Kelly

Seeing Cellular Debris, Remembering a Soviet Method

Ann H Kelly. Vis Anthropol. .

Abstract

A 1962 photomicrograph of a mosquito taken in what was then a Tanganyikan mountain laboratory offers a prompt to consider the social salience and affective power of scientific images. Drawing inspiration from anthropological work on photographic practices, this article excavates the diverse geopolitical and domestic contexts of the image's production, consumption and circulation, so as to grasp the relationship between scientific labors and lives. As much souvenir as "epistemic thing," the photomicrograph provides new directions in thinking about the materiality of memory in tropical medicine.

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Eye of a gray drone-fly. Scheme 24 of Robert Hooke's Micrographia [(1664) 2005]. (© Wellcome Trust. Reproduced by permission of Wellcome Trust. Permission to reuse must be obtained from the rightsholder.)
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Photomicrograph of an ovariole in Anopheles gambiae showing 8 dilations. (Photo from Gillies and Wilkes [1965]; © Cambridge University Press [Bulletin of Entomological Research]. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press [Bulletin of Entomological Research]. Permission to reuse must be obtained from the rightsholder.)
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Tatjana S. Detinova teaching at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. (Photo by Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt, April 1959; © Wellcome Trust. Reproduced by permission of Wellcome Trust. Permission to reuse must be obtained from the rightsholder.)
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Mick and Aggie Gillies (ca. 1961), framed by Dorothy Wilkes. (Photo © the author, 2014)
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Dorothy Wilkes and her oil paintings of Amani. (Photo © the author, 2014)
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Dorothy Wilkes’ paintings of Muheza, 1987. (Photo © the author, 2014)
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Images showing artificial shelters to collect mosquitoes from outdoor resting sites. (Photo from Gillies [1954]; © Cambridge University Press [Bulletin of Entomological Research]. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press [Bulletin of Entomological Research]. Permission to reuse must be obtained from the rightsholder.)
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Nr. Muheza, Vincent amongst the sisal. (Photo © Chris Draper Archive, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1959. Reproduced by permission of Chris Draper Archive, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Permission to reuse must be obtained from the rightsholder.)
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The Bait. (Photo © Chris Draper Archive, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1959. Reproduced by permission of Chris Draper Archive, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Permission to reuse must be obtained from the rightsholder.)
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Tony Wilkes at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. (Photo © the author, 2013)
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