Blood
An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
$57.41
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
7 March 2000
Summary
Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail, clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popular science writing. Here is the sweeping story of a substance that has been feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times–a substance that has become the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Blood was described by judges as “a grip…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780688176495 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0688176496 |
| Author: | Douglas Starr |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Childrens Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2000 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Thoroughly researched and often shocking.” - Washington Post Book World
Douglas Starr
Douglas Starr is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Codirector of the Graduate program in Science Journalism at Boston University. A former newspaper reporter and field biologist, he has written on the environment, medicine, and science for a variety of publications including Smithsonian, Audubon, and Sports Illustrated. Starr lives near Boston with his wife and two sons.
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