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Autore |
Berner Boel <p>Boel Berner, Linköping University, Schweden </p> |
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Titolo |
Strange Blood : The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond / Boel Berner |
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Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Blood Transfusion |
19th Century |
Lamb Blood |
Clinical Practice |
Medical History |
Medicine |
Human |
Animal |
History of Medicine |
Human-Animal Studies |
History of Science |
Cultural History |
History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Prologue 9 Introduction: 'The mighty influence of strange blood' 11 1. Using the blood of others 17 2. Ambitions and connections 31 3. Blood on the battlefield 45 4. Blood for the lungs 61 5. Asylum experiments 81 6. Proofs and refutations 105 7. Transgressions 127 8. Winding up 145 Epilogue: The return 159 Notes 167 Sources and Literature 183 Acknowledgements 203 Index of Places 205 Index of Names 209 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care. |
»Insgesamt hat die schwedische Medizinhistorikerin eine interessante und lesenswerte Studie vorgelegt, der [...] das Verdienst gebührt, ein ansonsten nur randständig wahrgenommenes Thema quellen- und facettenreich auszuleuchten.« |
Besprochen in:https://lithub.com, 12.10.2020https://www.books-readers.com, 10 (2020)Zeitsprung, 08.07.2020 Journal of Medical Humanities, 43 (2022), Ericka Johnson |
»All in all, the Swedish medical historian has presented an interesting and readable study, which [...] deserves the merit of illuminating a topic that is otherwise only marginally perceived, rich in sources and facets.« |
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