Blood Matters
Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700
In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life, a medical cure, a serum appearing under the guise of all other bodily secretions, and-after William Harvey's discovery of its circulation-the cause of one of the greatest medical controversies of the premodern period. Figurative uses of blood are even more difficult to pin down. The term appeared in almost every sphere of life and thought, running through po…
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Weitere Autoren: Decamp, Eleanor (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8122-9509-2
- EAN: 9780812295092
- Produktnummer: 27109746
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'443 KB
- Abbildungen: 10 illus.
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Edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp
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