Why the blood?
Audio 48:30
Blood © iStock / oeytoey2530
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
What do we know about blood, our blood?
This so precious vital fluid which flows in our veins, still carries many mysteries ... Once upon a time there was blood, physiologically and symbolically.
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Let us look at the blood today, yes the blood, ours, this omnipresent and so precious vital fluid which flows in our veins, signature of life, like death when it escapes. Revealing our illnesses, carrying our identity and our heredity, but also our myths and our symbols, blood carries all of our physiological and psychic, scientific, symbolic and artistic history. From the sacred blood of Christ to that which saves transfusions, through the blood spilled on battlefields, that contaminated by viruses, not to mention the hemoglobin so dear to gore films: whether it frightens or inspires, the blood is always laden with mystery!
Program on the work
Once upon a time blood: it reveals our health and our heredity
with Professor
Olivier Garraud
(immunologist, hematologist, professor at the University of Lyon and at the Faculty of Medicine of Saint-Étienne) and the professor
Jean-Daniel Tissot
(hematologist internist, dean professor at the University of Lausanne).
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