Blood

Description:

Essence and emblem of life - feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times - human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals that of any other business - millions of lives have been saved by blood and its various derivatives, and tens of thousands of lives have been lost. Douglas Starr tells how this came to be, in a sweeping history that ranges through the centuries.

subjects: Blood,  Blood banks,  Blood products,  Economic aspects,  Economic aspects of Blood,  History,  Research,  Social aspects,  Social aspects of Blood,  Transfusion,  Medicine, history,  Hematology