Blood, Sweat and Tears
A History of Bodily Fluids
$30.58
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2026
Summary
Our ancestors didn’t just take the piss… They used it too.
The human body leaks. It oozes. It sweats and spits. It bursts, it bleeds and it squirts. Over the history of humanity, our bodies have evolved into sophisticated vessels for survival, leaving a long trail of fluids in our wake.
Whether we’re coughing it up or swallowing it down, our bodily fluids are essential to our life and health. Yet, in the past couple of centuries, we have developed a difficult relationship with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781835985045 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1835985041 |
| Author: | Ruben Verwaal, Andy Brown |
| Publisher: | Canelo |
| Imprint: | August Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 154mm x 232mm |
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Critics Review
A history of the gruesome and the grim. Fascinating. – Sue Black, author of All That Remains
Ruben Verwaal
Ruben E. Verwaal is NWO Rubicon Research Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, and curator of the medical collections at the Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam. He specialises in history of early modern science and medicine, material culture, and critical medical humanities.
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