Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

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 story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-08
Mått:147 x 226 x 15 mm
Vikt:666 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Medical Humanities
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Transcript Verlag
ISBN:9783837651638

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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.

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»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.«

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue; Introduction: 'The mighty influence of strange blood'; Using the blood of others; Ambitions and connections; Blood on the battlefield; Blood for the lungs; Asylum experiments; Proofs and refutations; Transgressions; Winding up; Epilogue: The return; Notes; Sources and Literature; Acknowledgements; Index of Places; Index of Names.