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Author Tucker, Holly.

Title Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution / Holly Tucker.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  615.39 TUC    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  615.39 TUC    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  615.39 TUCKER    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  615.39 TUC    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  612.11 TUCKER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-289) and index.
Summary A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe.
Contents The doctor and the madman -- Circulation -- The age of vivisection -- Plague and fire -- Philosophical transactions -- Noble ambitions -- How high will he not climb? -- The king's library -- The philosopher's stone -- The blood of a beast -- The Tower of London -- Bedlam -- Monsters and marvels -- The widow -- The affair of the poisons -- Chimeras.
Subject Blood -- Transfusion -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Denis, Jean-Baptiste, -1704.
Denis, Jean-Baptiste, -1704.
Blood Transfusion -- history -- Europe.
History, 17th Century -- Europe.
Homicide -- history -- Europe.
Human Experimentation -- history -- Europe.
Public Opinion -- Europe.
Science -- history -- Europe.
ISBN 9780393070552 hardcover
0393070557 hardcover
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