Blood work a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The doctor and the madman
- Circulation
- The age of vivisection
- Plague and fire
- Philosophical transactions
- Noble ambitions
- How high will he not climb?
- The king's library
- The philosopher's stone
- The blood of a beast
- The Tower of London
- Bedlam
- Monsters and marvels
- The widow
- The affair of the poisons
- Chimeras.
