Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

by Starr, Douglas
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ISBN: 9780688176495
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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."

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Starr, Douglas
  • ISBN: 9780688176495
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.25 x 1.29
  • Number Of Pages: 496
  • Publication Year: 2000

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