![]() ![]() Pride and glory drove the main protagonists of the story. Holly Tucker’s Blood Work is centered on the century when the quest to understand blood went from counter-productive procedures based on medieval philosophy to the beginning of scientific understanding and experimentally based medicine. In this case there really was a lot of blood, sweat and tears by the medical establishments of two countries intensely throughout the 1660s before the work was banned for over a century. Its always a good to be reminded of all of the work and drama that went into what seems like dull facts and standard procedures today. ![]() I read it a few weeks ago just before I started teaching my summer anatomy course. I picked up this book at just the right time. Holly Tucker, Blood Work: A Tale of Murder and Medicine in the ‘Scientific Revolution’. ![]()
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