| Description |
xv, 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Blood of a Gentle Calf -- 2. "There Is No Remedy As Miraculous As Bleeding" -- 3. A Strange Agglutination -- 4. Blood on the Hoof -- 5. Prelude to a Blood Bath -- 6. War Begins -- 7. Blood Cracks like Oil -- 8. Blood at the Front -- 9. Dr. Naito -- 10. Dr. Cohn -- 11. The Blood Boom -- 12. Bad Blood -- 13. Wildcat Days -- 14. The Blood-Services Complex -- 15. Outbreak -- 16. "All Our Lots Are Contaminated" -- 17. Judgment -- Epilogue: Blood in a Post-AIDS Society |
| Summary |
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. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-414) and index |
| Subject |
Blood banks -- History.
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Blood products -- History.
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Blood -- Transfusion -- Complications.
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Blood -- Transfusion -- History.
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Blood -- Transfusion -- Social aspects.
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Blood Banks -- history.
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| LC no. |
97046815 |
| ISBN |
0316911461 |
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067941875X (alk. paper) |
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