Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution /

Tucker, Holly.

Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution / Holly Tucker. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2011. - xxix, 304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe.

0393070557 (hardcover) 9780393070552 (hardcover)

2010046340

101546106 DNLM


Denis, Jean-Baptiste, -1704.


Blood--Transfusion--History--Europe--17th century.
History--17th century.
Homicide--History.--Europe
Public opinion--Europe.
Science--History.--Europe

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