Boel Berner

Strange Blood

The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond

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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 stor… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-8376-5163-8
EAN: 9783837651638
Produktnummer: 33172008
Verlag: Transcript Verlag
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 214 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.8 cm 346 g
Abbildungen: 32 SW-Abbildungen
Reihenbandnummer: 5
Gewicht: 346

Über den Autor

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.