Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0688176496 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, March 2000
Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail, clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abun...
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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."
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