![]() The book is also a deeper look at the ethics behind blood transfusion the many ways people questioned what they didn’t understand, tried to stop it happening, and eventually wound up slowing progress for hundreds of years.īlood Workhas been on my wishlist since well before it was published. Tucker also looks at the race between the English and the French to transfuse faster, and their struggles to publish first and occasional glossing over of facts as they did so. The madman died and Denis wound up framed for murder as a result. ![]() Tucker mainly tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Denis, a physician outside the cult of Paris-educated noblemen, who in what could have been a world-changing experiment transfused calf’s blood into a madman in Paris. Blood Workis a multi-pronged look at the history of blood transfusion during the Scientific Revolution in both England and France. ![]()
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