{"id":942,"date":"2016-01-21T09:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/?p=942"},"modified":"2016-01-22T04:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:31:31","slug":"new-exhibition-knowing-blood-sang-sens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/new-exhibition-knowing-blood-sang-sens\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibition: Knowing blood \/ Sang sens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Knowing<\/a>Knowing Blood: Medical Observations, Fluid Meanings<\/strong><\/p>\n

This exhibition is about observations, meanings, and understandings of blood from the late 15th<\/sup> to the mid-20th<\/sup> century. Blood has long been a powerful and evocative symbol, signifying themes from life, identity, community and kinship to sex, lineage, violence and death. Practices of observing blood in experiment, diagnosis, and therapy have also varied widely: a melange of cells seen under a microscope, a pulse felt by a trained touch, the taste of blood from a barber-surgeon\u2019s bowl, a map comparing hematological and racial groups. Modern Western medicine has known not one but many kinds of blood.<\/p>\n

Knowing Blood<\/em> queries how various practices of observation have encountered the multifarious meanings of blood and negotiated new medical knowledge. The objects, texts, and images displayed here are drawn from the collections of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, the Humanities and Social Sciences and Schulich\u00a0Libraries, the Maude Abbott Medical Museum, and le Mus\u00e9e des Hospitali\u00e8res de l’H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Montr\u00e9al. Five thematic cases highlight different historical approaches to observation, their relation to changing systems of medical practice and to blood\u2019s broader meanings. We invite you to explore this rich 400-year history of knowing and observing the most vital of bodily fluids.<\/p>\n

\"Sang<\/a>Sang sens<\/strong> : observations m\u00e9dicales, interpr\u00e9tations fluides<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Cette exposition porte sur l\u2019observation, la signification et les repr\u00e9sentations du sang de la fin du XVe <\/sup>au milieu du XXe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle. \u00c9voquant des th\u00e8mes de vie, d’identit\u00e9, de communaut\u00e9 et de parent\u00e9, mais aussi de sexe, de g\u00e9n\u00e9tique, de violence et de mort, le sang constitue depuis des si\u00e8cles un symbole puissant. Les pratiques d’observation du sang dans les contextes exp\u00e9rimental, diagnostic et th\u00e9rapeutique ont par ailleurs largement vari\u00e9; depuis un m\u00e9lange de cellules aper\u00e7u sous un microscope \u00e0 un pouls t\u00e2t\u00e9 minutieusement, en passant par une certaine odeur d\u00e9tect\u00e9e apr\u00e8s une saign\u00e9e ou encore une carte du monde comparant divers groupes h\u00e9matologiques et raciaux. La m\u00e9decine occidentale contemporaine a ainsi connu non pas un mais bien plusieurs types de sang.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sang sens interroge les croisements multiples entre ces diverses pratiques d’observation et d\u2019interpr\u00e9tation ayant contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la mise en place de nouveaux savoirs m\u00e9dicaux. Les objets, textes et images ici expos\u00e9s sont tir\u00e9s des collections de la biblioth\u00e8que Osler d’histoire de la m\u00e9decine, de la biblioth\u00e8que des sciences humaines et sociales et de la\u00a0biblioth\u00e8que\u00a0Schulich, du Mus\u00e9e m\u00e9dical Maude Abbott, et du Mus\u00e9e des Hospitali\u00e8res de l’H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Montr\u00e9al. Cinq vitrines\u00a0th\u00e9matiques mettent en \u00e9vidence diff\u00e9rentes facettes historiques de l’observation ainsi que leur relation avec les syst\u00e8mes de la pratique m\u00e9dicale et les significations vari\u00e9es du sang dans divers discours. Nous vous invitons \u00e0 d\u00e9couvrir cette histoire riche de 400 ans au sein de laquelle a \u00e9t\u00e9 imagin\u00e9 et montr\u00e9 le plus vital des fluides corporels.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The vernissage will be held\u00a0on January 27th at 6PM and is open to all \/ Le vernissage aura lieu le 27 janvier \u00e0 18h et est ouvert a tous.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition is accessible during library opening hours, Monday-Friday, 9AM-5PM<\/strong>\/ L’exposition est accessible pendant les heures d’ouverture de la biblioth\u00e8que, lundi \u00e0 vendredi, 9h-17h.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, McIntyre Medical Building, 3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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