Knowing Blood / Sang sens

ponse 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.