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Blood

An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Blood( )
Author: Starr, Douglas
ISBN:978-0-679-41875-7
Publication Date:Sep 1998
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Knopf
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $28.50
Book Description:

Essence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals that of any other business--millions of lives have been saved by blood and its various derivatives, and tens of thousands of lives have been lost. Douglas Starr tells how this came to be, in a sweeping history that ranges through the...
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Book Details
Pages:464
Detailed Subjects: Medical / Hematology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.76 x 9.6 x 1.55 Inches
Book Weight:1.87 Pounds



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