Lifeblood - Edvard Munch

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.

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 – Ed...