Blood An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Name: Blood An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
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ISBN: 9780688176495

ISBN-10: 0688176496

ISBN-13: 9780688176495

Edition: N/A

Authors: Douglas Starr

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Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail, clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popular science writing. Here is the sweeping story of a substance that has been feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--a substance that has become the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Blood was described by judges as "a gripping page-turner, a significant contribution to the history of medicine and technology and a cautionary tale. Meticulously reported and exhaustively documented."

Book details

List price: $18.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.24" tall
Weight: 1.298



Preface



Blood Magic



The Blood of a Gentle Calf



"There Is No Remedy As Miraculous As Bleeding"



A Strange Agglutination



Blood Wars



Blood on the Hoof



Prelude to a Blood Bath



War Begins



Blood Cracks like Oil



Blood at the Front



Blood Money



Dr. Naito



Dr. Cohn



The Blood Boom



Bad Blood



Wildcat Days



The Blood-Services Complex



Outbreak



"All Our Lots Are Contaminated"



Judgment


Epilogue: Blood in a Post-AIDS Society


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index