Moving blood.
Our internationally acclaimed journalist Sanguinia has returned safely from her historic assignment. Travelling from Homeric Greece to British Romanticism, she was witness to blood drinking, letting, bathing, and transfusion. In this report, she explores connections between the symbolic and the sadistic; the mythic and the medical--all in an effort to appreciate the layered meanings our culture has given to the movement of blood between our bodies.
Pelis
K
K
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK. k.pelis@wellcome.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000266:history*; D001815:Bloodletting / Q000266:history*; D002835:Christianity / Q000266:history; D005060:Europe; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D008877:Middle East