Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Ljubljana’s Kapelica

  • Drawing blood: Depictions of transfusion in contemporary arts

    Diana-Andreea NovaceanuBucharest, Romania The history of blood transfusion has unfolded in stages, first from experiments on animals, then from animal to human, and finally to transfusion between humans. The subject, in all its intricacy, has been captured by medical illustrators and painters throughout the centuries. Over the course of the last decades, attitudes towards blood…