num_pages: 272
description: In Blood bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every persons arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. However as much as the study and use of blood has helped advance our understanding of human biology its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religions literature and the visual arts and every time it pools or spills we learn a little more about what brings human beings together and what divides them.This book is a fascinating historical and contemporary interpretation of blood as a bold and enduring determinant of identity race culture citizenship belonging privilege deprivation athletic superiority and nationhood.
language: English
title: Blood: The Stuff of Life
publisher: House of Anansi Press