num_pages: 496
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."
language: English
title: Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
titlecomplete: Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
genres: Medicine, Historical, Microhistory, Biology, Science, Nonfiction, Health, History Of Medicine, Medical, History
ratings_count: 617
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Science and Technology
publisher: Harper Perennial