Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
- ISBN-10
- 067941875X
- ISBN-13
- 9780679418757
- Series
- Blood
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 441
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Douglas P. Starr
Description
Discusses the worldwide traffic in human blood and blood products, the history of the use of blood in medicine, the evolution of the modern blood bank, and the spread of AIDS and other diseases through the distribution of contaminated blood. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
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