Book ID: CBB452577049

Bloed, zweet en tranen. Over de vloeibare mens [Blood, sweat, and tears: On the liquid human] (2023)

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Ruben E. Verwaal (Author)


Thomas Rap


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 256
Language: Dutch; Flemish

Het menselijk lichaam is zo lek als een mandje. Het zweet, spuugt, piest, poept, bloedt en spuit. Juist die vloeibaarheid is essentieel voor ons leven en voor onze gezondheid. Zonder speeksel kunnen we ons eten niet doorslikken en verteren, zonder stollend bloed geen helende wonden, zonder vaginaal vocht en sperma geen voortplanting. Toch hebben we een problematische verhouding met onze lichaamssappen. We vinden pus, zweet en urine tegenwoordig al snel vies en onhygiënisch. Maar dat is niet altijd het geval geweest. Hoe is dat zo gekomen? Aan de hand van historische bronnen vertelt Ruben Verwaal in Bloed, zweet en tranen fascinerende en geestige verhalen over hoe in vroeger tijden over lichaamssappen werd gedacht en hoe ze in het dagelijks leven voor allerhande zaken werden gebruikt. [DeepL translation: The human body is as leaky as a basket. It sweats, spits, pees, poops, bleeds and squirts. This very fluidity is essential to our lives and to our health. Without saliva we cannot swallow and digest our food, without clotting blood no healing wounds, without vaginal fluid and sperm no reproduction. Yet we have a problematic relationship with our bodily fluids. We are quick to consider pus, sweat and urine dirty and unsanitary these days. But that hasn't always been the case. How did it come to be that way? Using historical sources, Ruben Verwaal tells fascinating and witty stories in Blood, Sweat and Tears about how bodily fluids were thought of in earlier times and how they were used in everyday life for all sorts of things.]

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Authors & Contributors
Kimberly Anne Coles
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Decamp, E.
Zita Nunes
Wilkins, John
Johnson, Bonnie Lander
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Medicine
Human body
Blood
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18th century
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United States
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