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...
A history of human blood as a resource and humanity's attempts to understand and exploit it. The mythic and moral symbolism of blood, which has been with us since ancient times subtly endures. It clouded professional judgments and public perceptions in the AIDS scandals of France,...