Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution / Holly Tucker.

  • Tucker, Holly.
Date:
[2011], ©2011
  • Books

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Description

A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe.

Publication/Creation

New York ; London : W.W. Norton, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

xxix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The doctor and the madman -- Circulation -- The age of vivisection -- Plague and fire -- Philosophical transactions -- Noble ambitions -- How high will he not climb? -- The king's library -- The philosopher's stone -- The blood of a beast -- The Tower of London -- Bedlam -- Monsters and marvels -- The widow -- The affair of the poisons -- Chimeras.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    AOC.36.AA6
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ISBN

  • 9780393070552
  • 0393070557