Everything I Could Buy on eBay about Malaria
BMJ 2002; 325 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0209348 (Published 01 September 2002) Cite this as: BMJ 2002;325:0209348
- Claire McKenna, third year medical student1
- 1Queens University
She can knock you flat for keeps
Short of cash? Then why not sell your soul? The going rate for souls, almost new, in good condition, is £11.61 on eBay, the worlds largest online auction house. So diverse are the items on sale that NASA has recently admitted to searching eBay for replacement computer parts for the space shuttle programme. Now Canadian artist Bill Burns has joined the devotees of the auction house and has amassed an eclectic and eccentric cornucopia of items relating to malaria for this Wellcome Trust exhibition.
Henry Wellcome's model floating Nile laboratory
The items on display amount to a veritable pocket history of malaria and malaria prevention and treatment programmes in the 20th century. One can see model crop …
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