The Heart in Science and in Fiction / Le cœur humain: science et fiction
Saturday, May 13 2017
10:00 to 3:00
Maude Abbott Medical Museum
The event will explore the heart as a medical/anatomical organ and as a subject of literature. Museum specimens illustrating cardiac muscle death, infection and aging will be displayed and some current treatments will be shown.
Anatomic dissections by a pathologist illustrating normal animal heart anatomy will be performed at:
11:00 and 13:00 (English)
12:00 (noon) and 14:00 (French).
The contrasting concept of the heart as a spiritual/vital organ in literature – including poetry, novels and biography – will also be illustrated.
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