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6 - Heroes and Villains of Blood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2022

By
Rose George
Edited by
Iosifina Foskolou  and
Martin Jones
Iosifina Foskolou
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Martin Jones
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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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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transfusionblood donationbloodlettingleechingmenstruation
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Blood , pp. 118 - 139
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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