TY - BOOK AU - Tucker,Holly TI - Blood work: a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution SN - 0393070557 (hardcover) PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton KW - Denis, Jean-Baptiste, KW - Blood KW - Transfusion KW - Europe KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Homicide KW - Public opinion KW - Science N1 - 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 N2 - A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe ER -