Strange Blood : The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond / Boel Berner.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Medical Humanities ; 5Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783839451632
- Blood -- Transfusion -- History -- 19th century
- 19th Century
- Animal
- Clinical Practice
- Cultural History
- History of Medicine
- History of Science
- History
- Human-Animal Studies
- Human
- Lamb Blood
- Medical History
- Medicine
- HISTORY / Social History
- 19th Century
- Animal
- Clinical Practice
- Cultural History
- History of Medicine
- History of Science
- History
- Human-Animal Studies
- Human
- Lamb Blood
- Medical History
- Medicine
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction: 'The mighty influence of strange blood' -- PART I: SETTING THE SCENE -- 1. Using the blood of others -- 2. Ambitions and connections -- PART II: PRACTICES -- 3. Blood on the battlefield -- 4. Blood for the lungs -- 5. Asylum experiments -- PART III: CONTROVERSY -- 6. Proofs and refutations -- 7. Transgressions -- PART IV: THE FALL -- 8. Winding up -- Epilogue: The return -- Notes -- Sources and Literature -- Acknowledgements -- Index of Places -- Index of Names
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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 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.
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