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Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond (Medical Humanities) - Tapa blanda

Berner, Boel

 
9783837651638: Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond (Medical Humanities)
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ISBN 10: 3837651630 ISBN 13: 9783837651638
Editorial: Transcript Verlag, 2021

Sinopsis

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a contested therapy because it meant crossing boundaries and challenging taboos. Was the transfusion of lamb blood into desperately sick humans really defensible?

The book takes the reader on a journey into hospital wards and lunatic asylums, physiological laboratories and 19th century wars. It presents a fascinating story of medical knowledge, ambitions and concerns – a story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care.

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Boel Berner is a sociologist, historian, and professor emerita at Linköping University in Sweden. In her research she investigates the character and power of expertise, historically and today. She has studied education and work, the gendered nature of technical knowledge, household modernization, and issues of risk. Her current work is oriented towards the history of medicine. It focuses, besides questions of blood donation and transfusion, on the politics of blood group analysis in the interwar years.

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Editorial
Transcript Verlag
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
3837651630
ISBN 13 
9783837651638
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
200
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