Displaying 1 of 1 2011 Format: Book Author: Tucker, Holly. Title: Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution / Holly Tucker. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2011. Description: xxix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Summary: A sharp-eyed exposé of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe. Subjects: Denis, Jean-Baptiste, -1704. Blood -- Transfusion -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. Medicine -- History -- 17th century. Europe. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: 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. LCCN: 2010046340 ISBN: 9780393070552 0393070557 0393342239 9780393342239 Other Number: 601108898 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 284143 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 615.39 Tucker Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
