This picture was taken by me during field work in the Tumor Bank of Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, INcan.
Maria Amelia Rodriguez, "A clean fume hood", contributed by Maria Amelia Rodriguez, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 26 August 2019, accessed 25 August 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/clean-fume-hood
Critical Commentary
This is a fume hood, where the samples stored in the biobank are taken. A nurse working for the biobank is in charge of keeping the fume hood supplied with organs from which samples can be taken. It’s possible to see the big knife and the cutting board (right) used to slice organs such as the tumorous ovary shown above.