Good Blood: A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough That Saved Millions of Babies

by Julian Guthrie

Book Overview

A remarkable, uplifting story about one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century

In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419743317
• ISBN13: 9781419743313
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"