Lifeblood – Edvard Munch

With contributions by Fatema Abdoolcarim, Patricia G. Berman, Gemma Blackshaw, Alice Butler, Alison W. Chang, Hege Duckert, Jacalyn Duffin, Signe Endresen, Ute Kuhlemann Falck, Jan Grue, Johanna Hedva, Nora Heidorn, Aurora Hoel, Mary Hunter, Cathrine Knudsen, Cathrine Krøge, Olivia Laing, Ageliki Lefkaditou, Phil Loring, Allison Morehead, Olaug Nilssen, Kaveh Rashidi, Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, Thorvald Steen, Sara Stridsberg, Espen Stueland, Ingvard Wilhelmsen.

• Nine Sketches in Watercolour Writing Fatema AbdoolcarimForewordAcknowledgementsLifeblood: Edvard Munch and the Medicalisation of Modern Life - Allison MoreheadLetter to a Young Doctor - Johanna HedvaNo One Here Gets Out Alive - Olivia LaingOperative Paintings: An X-Ray Perspective on Edvard Munch - Aurora Hoel‘With regard to Edvard’s Vaccinations’ – A Father’s Efforts to Get His Son Vaccinated against Smallpox - Espen StuelandSpringing Lancets and Crippling Theory - Cathrine KrøgerReflections and Speculations on a Skeleton Left Behind - Phil LoringThe Art and Science of Observation: The Women and the Skeleton - Alison W. ChangClose Encounters in the Health Archive of an Aunt, Sister and Brother: A ‘Sick Women’ Letter Exchange - Gemma Blackshaw and Alice ButlerA Place in the Sun – A Dark Wicker Chair in a New Light - Ute Kuhlemann FalckI Wanted to Live - Olaug NilssenTuberculosis, Stethoscopes and Auscultation - Jacalyn DuffinSick Children - Allison MoreheadDeath in the Sickroom - Kaveh RashidiMedical Eroticism: The Camera and the Female Patient - Natasha Ruiz-Gómez Self-Portraits in Hell – Ode to All Those I Have Visited in the Psych Ward... - Sara StridsbergInheritance and Shame - Thorvald SteenThe Sorrow of the Composite Body: Syphilitic Infants in Wax and Paint - Mary HunterExhibiting a Baby Incubator - Allison MoreheadThe Angel Makers - Hege DuckertReading Munch’s Madonna through the Lens of Contraception - Nora HeidornEdvard Munch’s Self Scrutinies, Self-Care and the ‘Spanish’ Flu - Patricia G. BermanIn the Shadow of Sickness - Signe Endresen‘The Rolling Black Ball’: Edvard Munch’s Anxiety-Filled Relationship With His Own Health - Ingvard WilhelmsenEmotionless Food - Cathrine KnudsenMunch and Schreiner – Anatomists of Souls and Bodies - Ageliki LefkaditouWhere the Body Ends and the World Begins. On Prosthesis and the Human Condition - Jan GrueA Clinic in Copenhagen: Care, Gender, Power - Allison MoreheadAuthors’ BiographiesExhibited Works and Artefacts