Medicinal Efficacy in Images and Words since the Advent of Mass Media in Western Europe KU Leuven
Focusing on how images and words have characterized what medicinal efficacy historically and epistemically denotes, this project asks the question: How have cultural representations been mobilized to imply a relation between nature, healthiness and scientific knowledge? Even if ideas about medicines and media formats have changed over time, references to nature and alternative sources of knowledge have been recurrent themes since the onset of ...