Douglas Starr
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
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Named one of the best books of 1998 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal, the award-winning definitive history of the essence of life itself--blood--returns in trade paperback.
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.
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Named one of the best books of 1998 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal, the award-winning definitive history of the essence of life itself--blood--returns in trade paperback.
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.
Detalii
- Format
- Broșată
- Limbă
- Engleză
- Gen
- Fictiune
- ISBN
- 9780688176495
- Autori
- Douglas Starr
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