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Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition
by Douglas Starr
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Named one of the best books of 1998 by "Publishers Weekly, Booklist" and "Library Journal, " the award-winning definitive history of the essence of life itself--blood--returns in trade paperback.
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In a village near Paris in the seventeenth century lived a madman named Antonie Mauroy.
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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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- Title Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
- Author Douglas Starr
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, NY
- Publication date 2000-03-07
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780688176495 / 0688176496
- Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.14 x 1.29 in (23.50 x 15.60 x 3.28 cm)
- Category Medical / Nursing
- Library of Congress subjects Blood banks - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.178
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- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 01/01/1998, Page 47
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