Nine Pints - A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

AuthorRose George
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Price2895

An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science 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 donâ€™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 breakthough 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 worldâ€™s first system of mass blood donation during the Blitz, and Arunachalam Muruganantham, known as â€œMenstrual Manâ€ 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 â€œOPEC of plasma.â€ 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 Picador USA
Publication Date 22/10/2019
Number of Pages 368
Binding Paper Back
ISBN 9781250230683
Category Non Fiction , Health and Fitness

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