| Description |
1 online resource (216 pages). |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Series |
Medical humanities ; volume 5 |
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Medical humanities (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 5.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction: 'The mighty influence of strange blood' -- 1. Using the blood of others -- 2. Ambitions and connections -- 3. Blood on the battlefield -- 4. Blood for the lungs -- 5. Asylum experiments -- 6. Proofs and refutations -- 7. Transgressions -- 8. Winding up -- Epilogue: The return -- Notes -- Sources and Literature -- Acknowledgements -- Index of Places -- Index of Names |
| Summary |
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried to use 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. The book takes the reader on a unique 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 valuable lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Blood -- Transfusion -- History -- 19th century.
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Blood Transfusion -- history.
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
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Therapeutic Human Experimentation -- ethics.
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History, 19th Century.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Blood -- Transfusion.
(OCoLC)fst00834613
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HISTORY / Social History.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berner, Boel. Strange blood. Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2020] 9783837651638 (OCoLC)1156382715 |
| Standard No. |
10.14361/9783839451632 doi |
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