Blood
Subtitle: an epic history of medicine and commerce
By: Douglas Starr
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: Blood banks; History
Description: Documents the history of the use of human blood in medicine and the development of its collection by blood banks into a worldwide commerce.
Notes: "Reprinted by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf"--T.p. verso.

Originally published as: Blood, an epic story of medicine and commerce. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-414) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Blood magic -- -- ch. 1.; title: Blood of a gentle calf -- -- ch. 2.; title: There is no remedy as miraculous as bleeding -- -- ch. 3.; title: Strange agglutination -- -- pt. 2.; title: Blood wars -- -- ch. 4.; title: Blood on the hoof -- -- ch. 5.; title: Prelude to a blood bath -- -- ch. 6.; title: War begins -- -- ch. 7.; title: Blood cracks like oil -- -- ch. 8.; title: Blood at the front -- -- pt. 3.; title: Blood money -- -- ch. 9.; title: Dr. Naito -- -- ch. 10.; title: Dr. Cohn -- -- ch. 11.; title: Blood boom -- -- ch. 12.; title: Bad blood -- -- ch. 13.; title: Wildcat days -- -- ch. 14.; title: Blood-services complex -- -- ch. 15.; title: Outbreak -- -- ch. 16.; title: All our lots are contaminated -- -- ch. 17.; title: Judgment.