TY  - BOOK
AU  - George,Rose
TI  - Nine pints: a journey through the money, medicine, and mysteries of blood 
SN  - 9781250230683
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Company
KW  - Blood
KW  - Blood Banks
KW  - Blood Transfusion
KW  - Leeching
KW  - Blood Coagulation Disorders, Inherited
KW  - Menstruation
KW  - Menstrual Hygiene Products
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Anatomy & Physiology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Popular Work
KW  - Nonfiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-333) and index; My pint -- That most singular and valuable reptile -- Janet and Percy -- Blood borne -- The yellow stuff -- Rotting pickles -- Nasty cloths -- Code red -- Blood like Guinness : the future
N2  - "Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don't even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness, the few tablespoons of blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo: menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event. Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, is renowned for her intrepid work on topics that are invisible but vitally important. In Nine Pints, she takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to the breakthrough of the 'liquid biopsy,' which promises to diagnose cancer and other diseases with a simple blood test. She introduces Janet Vaughan, who set up the world's first system of mass blood donation during the Blitz, and Arunachalam Muruganantham, known as 'Menstrual Man' for his work on sanitary pads for developing countries. She probes the lucrative business of plasma transfusions, in which the US is known as the 'OPEC of plasma.' And she looks to the future, as researchers seek to bring synthetic blood to a hospital near you. Spanning science and politics, stories and global epidemics, Nine Pints reveals our life's blood in an entirely new light"--Publisher's website
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