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Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Douglas Starr

4.06/5 (577 ratings)

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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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Pages:: pages

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Publisher:: Harper Perennial

Edition:: 1

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0688176496

ISBN13:: 9780688176495

kindle Asin:: B008WONZPI

Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Douglas Starr

4.06/5 (577 ratings)

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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:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Harper Perennial

Edition:: 1

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0688176496

ISBN13:: 9780688176495

kindle Asin:: B008WONZPI

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