Tag: plasma
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Blood under the moon: the role of astrology in surgery
Margareta-Erminia Cassani Michigan, United States Zodiac Man, Homo Signorum, from Guild Book of the Barber Surgeons, c 1486, BL MS Egerton, 2572, f. 50v. Luminarium: Encyclopedia Project Imagine your doctor telling you that you need surgery. Then they follow that unsettling news with something, well, a little strange sounding. They tell you that the date…
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The color of organ markets
Howsikan Kugathasan Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dark Room, Single Light: the contrast between black and white markets Nawaraj Pariyar from Nepal is promised thirty thousand dollars for “a piece of meat” that will grow back. Only later does he find out that he was duped twice. He received less than 1% of his promised money…