Book contents
- Blood
- The Darwin College Lectures
- Blood
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Battle Blood
- 2 Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England
- 3 Blood in Motion, or the Physics of Blood Flow
- 4 Dracula, Blood, and the New Woman: Stoker’s Reflections on the Zeitgeist
- 5 Blood Lines of the British People
- 6 Heroes and Villains of Blood
- 7 Cold Blood: Some Ways by Which Animals Cope with Low Temperatures
- 8 Blood Sculptures
- Index
- References
6 - Heroes and Villains of Blood
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2022
- Blood
- The Darwin College Lectures
- Blood
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Battle Blood
- 2 Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England
- 3 Blood in Motion, or the Physics of Blood Flow
- 4 Dracula, Blood, and the New Woman: Stoker’s Reflections on the Zeitgeist
- 5 Blood Lines of the British People
- 6 Heroes and Villains of Blood
- 7 Cold Blood: Some Ways by Which Animals Cope with Low Temperatures
- 8 Blood Sculptures
- Index
- References
Summary
Blood as the foundation of life and health is the focus of this chapter, which assembles a series of heroes and villains in the quest for good blood health. The heroes comprise a pioneer of the blood transfusion service and a designer of economic sanitary pads; the villains comprise an experimenter on the accident-strewn path to mastery of life-saving (rather than life-taking) transfusion.
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- Blood , pp. 118 - 139Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022