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- Author: Boel Berner
- Publisher: Transcript Verlag
- Year: 2020
- Pages: 214
- ISBN-10: 3837651630
- ISBN-13: 9783837651638
- Format: 15.1 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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 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. Was the transfusion of lamb blood into desperately sick humans really defensible? The book takes the reader on a 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 lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care.
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- Author: Boel Berner
- Publisher: Transcript Verlag
- Year: 2020
- Pages: 214
- ISBN-10: 3837651630
- ISBN-13: 9783837651638
- Format: 15.1 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried 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. Was the transfusion of lamb blood into desperately sick humans really defensible? The book takes the reader on a 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 lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care.
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