Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

by Holly Tucker

Book Overview

A riveting account of the first blood transfusion experiments in 17th-century Paris and London, Blood Work gives us a vivid glimpse of a particularly fraught period in history--a time of fire and plague, empire building and international distrust, when monsters were believed to inhabit the seas and the boundary between science and superstition was still in flux. Amid this atmosphere of uncertainty, transfusionists like Denis became embroiled in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393070557
• ISBN13: 9780393070552
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"