Why blood?

Audio 48:30

The blood.

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

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.

(Rebroadcast June 9, 2021).

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Let's look at blood today, yes blood, ours, this omnipresent and so precious vital fluid that flows through our veins, a 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 our physiological and psychic, scientific, symbolic and artistic history.

From the sacred blood of Christ to that which saves transfusions, passing through the blood spilled on the battlefields, that contaminated by viruses without forgetting the hemoglobin so dear to gore films: whether it frightens or inspires, the blood is always full of mystery!

Program around the book 

 with Professor

(immunologist, hematologist, professor at the University of Lyon and at the Faculty of Medicine of Saint-Étienne) and the Professor

(hematologist internist, senior professor at the University of Lausanne).

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