Description
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.
Author: Douglas Starr
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 03/07/2000
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.14w x 1.29d
ISBN13: 9780688176495
ISBN10: 0688176496
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Hematology
- Medical | History
- Science | History