Lifeblood – Edvard Munch

Nine Sketches in Watercolour Writing Fatema Abdoolcarim Foreword Acknowledgements Lifeblood: Edvard Munch and the Medicalisation of Modern Life - Allison Morehead Letter to a Young Doctor - Johanna Hedva No One Here Gets Out Alive - Olivia Laing Operative Paintings: An X-Ray Perspective on Edvard Munch - Aurora Hoel ‘With regard to Edvard’s Vaccinations’ – A Father’s Efforts to Get His Son Vaccinated against Smallpox - Espen Stueland Springing Lancets and Crippling Theory - Cathrine Krøger Reflections and Speculations on a Skeleton Left Behind - Phil Loring The Art and Science of Observation: The Women and the Skeleton - Alison W. Chang Close Encounters in the Health Archive of an Aunt, Sister and Brother: A ‘Sick Women’ Letter Exchange - Gemma Blackshaw and Alice Butler A Place in the Sun – A Dark Wicker Chair in a New Light - Ute Kuhlemann Falck I Wanted to Live - Olaug Nilssen Tuberculosis, Stethoscopes and Auscultation - Jacalyn Duffin Sick Children - Allison Morehead Death in the Sickroom - Kaveh Rashidi Medical Eroticism: The Camera and the Female Patient - Natasha Ruiz-Gómez Self-Portraits in Hell – Ode to All Those I Have Visited in the Psych Ward... - Sara Stridsberg Inheritance and Shame - Thorvald Steen The Sorrow of the Composite Body: Syphilitic Infants in Wax and Paint - Mary Hunter Exhibiting a Baby Incubator - Allison Morehead The Angel Makers - Hege Duckert Reading Munch’s Madonna through the Lens of Contraception - Nora Heidorn Edvard Munch’s Self Scrutinies, Self-Care and the ‘Spanish’ Flu - Patricia G. Berman In the Shadow of Sickness - Signe Endresen ‘The Rolling Black Ball’: Edvard Munch’s Anxiety-Filled Relationship With His Own Health - Ingvard Wilhelmsen Emotionless Food - Cathrine Knudsen Munch and Schreiner – Anatomists of Souls and Bodies - Ageliki Lefkaditou Where the Body Ends and the World Begins. On Prosthesis and the Human Condition - Jan Grue A Clinic in Copenhagen: Care, Gender, Power - Allison Morehead Authors’ Biographies Exhibited Works and Artefacts