| Description |
1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Series |
Medical humanities ; volume 5 |
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Medical humanities (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 5.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 because it meant crossing boundaries and challenging taboos. The book takes the reader on a unique 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 valuable lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care |
| Analysis |
19th Century |
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Animal |
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Clinical Practice |
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Cultural History |
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History of Medicine |
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History of Science |
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History |
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Human-Animal Studies |
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Human |
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Lamb Blood |
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Medical History |
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Medicine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020) |
| Subject |
Blood -- Transfusion -- History -- 19th century
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Blood Transfusion -- history
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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Therapeutic Human Experimentation -- ethics
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History, 19th Century
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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HISTORY / Social History
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Blood -- Transfusion
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783839451632 |
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3839451639 |
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9783837651638 |
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3837651630 |
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