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Over the course of Edvard Munch’s lifetime, discoveries such as X-rays, germ theory, antibiotics and contraception transformed our understanding of the body forever. The exhibition Lifeblood – Edvard Munch<\/em> places the Norwegian artist at the heart of this dramatic development, juxtaposing his works with skeletons, scalpels, sputum bottles and a range of other objects from the history of modern healthcare.<\/p>\n

In this book, these objects are given voice and presence through a diverse selection of texts written by art and medical historians, healthcare workers, activists, museum professionals, artists and writers. Each contribution takes works or objects from the exhibition as its point of departure, using them as an entryway into the complex terrain of care. The maps they draw are not the same – and that is precisely the point: medical experience is never uniform, but shaped by each individual’s circumstances and identities.<\/p>\n

Richly illustrated, with contributions by exhibition curator Allison Morehead and by Fatema Abdoolcarim, Patricia G. Berman, Gemma Blackshaw, Alice Butler, Alison W. Chang, Hege Duckert, Jacalyn Duffin, Signe Endresen, Ute Kuhlemann Falck, Jan Grue, Johanna Hedva, Nora Heidorn, Aurora Hoel, Mary Hunter, Cathrine Knudsen, Cathrine Krøger, Olivia Laing, Ageliki Lefkaditou, Phil Loring, Olaug Nilssen, Kaveh Rashidi, Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, Thorvald Steen, Sara Stridsberg, Espen Stueland and Ingvard Wilhelmsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The book is multivocal and interdisciplinary. Significant contribution to the field of Munch studies, as well as to the broader histories of medicine, the medical humanities and curating. The book addresses what it means to be human in the face of illness and care – an experience that unites us all.
Nine Sketches in Watercolour Writing
\nFatema Abdoolcarim
\nForeword
\nAcknowledgements
\nLifeblood: Edvard Munch and the Medicalisation of Modern Life – Allison Morehead
\nLetter to a Young Doctor – Johanna Hedva
\nNo One Here Gets Out Alive – Olivia Laing
\nOperative Paintings: An X-Ray Perspective on Edvard Munch – Aurora Hoel
\n‘With regard to Edvard’s Vaccinations’ – A Father’s Efforts to Get His Son Vaccinated against Smallpox – Espen Stueland
\nSpringing Lancets and Crippling Theory – Cathrine Krøger
\nReflections and Speculations on a Skeleton Left Behind – Phil Loring
\nThe Art and Science of Observation: The Women and the Skeleton – Alison W. Chang
\nClose Encounters in the Health Archive of an Aunt, Sister and Brother: A ‘Sick Women’ Letter Exchange – Gemma Blackshaw and Alice Butler
\nA Place in the Sun – A Dark Wicker Chair in a New Light – Ute Kuhlemann Falck
\nI Wanted to Live – Olaug Nilssen
\nTuberculosis, Stethoscopes and Auscultation – Jacalyn Duffin
\nSick Children – Allison Morehead
\nDeath in the Sickroom – Kaveh Rashidi
\nMedical Eroticism: The Camera and the Female Patient – Natasha Ruiz-Gómez
\nSelf-Portraits in Hell – Ode to All Those I Have Visited in the Psych Ward… – Sara Stridsberg
\nInheritance and Shame – Thorvald Steen
\nThe Sorrow of the Composite Body: Syphilitic Infants in Wax and Paint – Mary Hunter
\nExhibiting a Baby Incubator – Allison Morehead
\nThe Angel Makers – Hege Duckert
\nReading Munch’s Madonna through the Lens of Contraception – Nora Heidorn
\nEdvard Munch’s Self Scrutinies, Self-Care and the ‘Spanish’ Flu – Patricia G. Berman
\nIn the Shadow of Sickness – Signe Endresen
\n‘The Rolling Black Ball’: Edvard Munch’s Anxiety-Filled Relationship With His Own Health – Ingvard Wilhelmsen
\nEmotionless Food – Cathrine Knudsen
\nMunch and Schreiner – Anatomists of Souls and Bodies – Ageliki Lefkaditou
\nWhere the Body Ends and the World Begins. On Prosthesis and the Human Condition – Jan Grue
\nA Clinic in Copenhagen: Care, Gender, Power – Allison Morehead
\nAuthors’ Biographies
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