Nine Pints George Rose
An eye-opening exploration of blood, the life giving 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 can save lives and transmit deadly infections. It is a waste produc… Celý popis ↓
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An eye-opening exploration of blood, the life giving 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 can save lives and transmit deadly infections. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil.
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. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don't even know their own blood type. In Nine Pints, she takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to the breakthrough of the "liquid biopsy," which
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