Blood

Author: Douglas Starr
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 067941875X
Category: Medical

Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Essence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. Download Blood medical books for free.
It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals that of any other business--millions of lives have been saved by blood and its various derivatives, and tens of thousands of lives have been lost. Douglas Starr tells how this came to be, in a sweeping history that ranges through the centuries.
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With the dawn of science, blood came to be seen as a component of human anatomy, capable of being isolated, studied, used. Starr describes the first documented transfusion: In the seventeenth century, one of Louis XIV's court physicians Get Blood our bestseller medical books.

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Starr describes the first documented transfusion: In the seventeenth century, one of Louis XIV's court physicians

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