IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1721: Bloodletting within the Borders of Media, Medicine, and Species
Thursday 9 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Elke Krotz, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien |
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Moderator/Chair: | Nicolas Huss, Deutsches Seminar, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
Paper 1721-a | Single-Sheet Wall Calendar, Manuscript, or Printed Treatise: A Media History of Bloodletting Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine |
Paper 1721-b | 'Hie solt du niht lazen': A Universal Remedy at Its Limits (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Medicine |
Paper 1721-c | Transbordering: From Bloodletting to Transfusion (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Science |
Abstract | Bloodletting is considered as one of the most popular therapeutic methods of the Middle Ages and was recommended for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of various illnesses. This session explores some points of intersection between theory and practice, physicians and barber-surgeons and human and veterinary medicine. Paper -a: Paper -b: Paper -c: |