Blood and ink
Medicine and literature deal with human suffering, crises and transformations. Both arts aim to diagnose, understand and heal. Since the 1980s, the “Medical Humanities” and “Narrative Medicine” have mapped these connecting lines as a subject. They deal methodically, systematically and application-related with aesthetic, physiological, therapeutic and rhetorical aspects in literature and medicine. In the seminar and the accompanying lecture series, we approach the emotional aspects that are told in suffering: fear, horror, anger, despair, grief and happiness. What forms of expression, images, and stories are used to describe and interpret these emotions by literary figures, philosophers, ethicists, theologians and medical professionals? How can medical knowledge benefit from literary knowledge and vice versa?
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