Strange Blood : the Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berner, Boel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Medical humanities (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 5.
Temas:
1800-1899
Blood > Transfusion > History > 19th century.
Blood Transfusion > history
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Therapeutic Human Experimentation > ethics
History, 19th Century
Sang > Transfusion > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY / Social History
Blood > Transfusion
19th Century.
Animal.
Clinical Practice.
Cultural History.
History of Medicine.
History of Science.
History.
Human-Animal Studies.
Human.
Lamb Blood.
Medical History.
Medicine.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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