Blood Work
Subtitle: a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
By: Holly Tucker
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780393070552
Subjects: Homicide; Human Experimentation; Blood Transfusion; Transfusion; Public Opinion; Blood; Science; History, 17th Century; History
Description: A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The doctor and the madman; title: Circulation; title: The age of vivisection; title: Plague and fire; title: Philosophical transactions; title: Noble ambitions; title: How high will he not climb?; title: The king's library; title: The philosopher's stone; title: The blood of a beast; title: The Tower of London; title: Bedlam; title: Monsters and marvels; title: The widow; title: The affair of the poisons; title: Chimeras.