Blood Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Matters write by Bonnie Lander Johnson. This book was released on 2018-03-26. Blood Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 political, theological, and familial discourses. Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation. Theatrical and medical practice are found to converge in their approaches to the regulation of blood as a source of identity and truth; medieval civic life intersects with seventeenth-century science and philosophy; the concepts of class, race, gender, and sexuality find in the language of blood as many mechanisms for differentiation as for homogeneity; and fields as disparate as pedagogical theory, alchemy, phlebotomy, wet-nursing, and wine production emerge as historically and intellectually analogous. The volume's essays are organized within categories derived from medieval and early modern understanding of blood behaviors—Circulation, Wounds, Corruption, Proof, and Signs and Substances—thereby providing the terms through which interdisciplinary and cross-period conversations can take place. Contributors: Helen Barr, Katharine Craik, Lesel Dawson, Eleanor Decamp, Frances E. Dolan, Elisabeth Dutton, Margaret Healy, Dolly Jørgensen, Helen King, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Joe Moshenska, Tara Nummedal, Patricia Parker, Ben Parsons, Heather Webb, Gabriella Zuccolin.
Blood Matters
Blood Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Matters write by Masha Gessen. This book was released on 2009-11-11. Blood Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A National Book Award winner’s personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing. Several years after Masha Gessen’s mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to high rates of ovarian and breast cancer. Her doctors gave her narrow options: surgical removal of her breasts and ovaries or living with the likelihood of one day developing cancer. As Gessen wrestled with her own health decisions, she sought more information about the implications of genetic testing from a variety of sources—ranging from others faced with her same dilemma to medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. With concerns both practical and philosophical, personal and societal, her inquiry led her across the globe, with stops in Israel, Russia, Austria, and the United States. Weaving her own story into her journalistic research, Gessen offers insight into how knowledge that was once unimaginable now shapes our lives. Blood Matters explores not only the decisions we must make in our physical and emotional health, but also the ethical choices we face when choosing spouses or having children. “Valuable reading to almost anyone facing a huge health decision, not only for the literary commiseration it offers, but also for the inspired example of medical sleuthing on one’s own behalf that it provides. Gessen keeps an inflammatory topic at room temperature, writing elegantly and without self pity.” —The New York Times Book Review
Blood Matters
Blood Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Matters write by Erik March Zissu. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Blood Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2002. This study explores how the five tribes of Oklahoma - Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles - strove to achieve political unity within their tribes during the first decades of the 20th century by forging a new sense of peoplehood around the idea of blood.
Blood Matters
Blood Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Matters write by Masha Gessen. This book was released on 2009-11-01. Blood Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes how advanced genetic testing led to the author's discovery that she was predisposed to ovarian and breast cancer and examines how genetic data shapes the decisions people make and their personal sense of identity.
Blood Matters
Blood Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Matters write by Bonnie Lander. This book was released on 2018-05-04. Blood Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry in medieval and early modern Europe and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation.
