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Strange Blood : The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berner, Boel.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Medical Humanities
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: 'The mighty influence of strange blood'
  • PART I: SETTING THE SCENE
  • 1. Using the blood of others
  • The beginnings
  • The return
  • Direct or indirect transfusion?
  • Gaining acceptance
  • The revival of lamb blood transfusion
  • 2. Ambitions and connections
  • The sanguine local doctor
  • The polemicist
  • The entrepreneur
  • The context
  • PART II: PRACTICES
  • 3. Blood on the battlefield
  • Wars, wars, wars
  • War‐time modernization
  • Using Roussel's apparatus - or not?
  • The animal blood alternative
  • Saving the apparently dead
  • War and medical innovation
  • 4. Blood for the lungs
  • Consumption challenges
  • The benefits of lamb blood
  • Performing transfusions
  • Experiencing lamb blood transfusion
  • Getting better?
  • Still worth trying?
  • 5. Asylum experiments
  • Pellagrous conditions
  • Testing transfusion
  • Transfusion and the Risorgimento of Italian science
  • First experiences
  • A transfusion competition
  • The Brescia experiment
  • Understanding improvement
  • Assessing experiments
  • PART III: CONTROVERSY
  • 6. Proofs and refutations
  • Bedside medicine
  • Hospital medicine
  • Laboratory medicine
  • Laboratory experiments contested
  • Clinical experience contested
  • The problem with statistics
  • 7. Transgressions
  • Using animals
  • Crossing boundaries
  • Accepting transgression
  • Was it worth it?
  • Overstepping boundaries
  • PART IV: THE FALL
  • 8. Winding up
  • The condemnation
  • Understanding blood
  • Lessons learnt
  • Human trajectories
  • No more blood on the battlefield?
  • Epilogue: The return
  • The advent of serotherapy
  • Hasse vindicated?
  • French interventions
  • Notes
  • Sources and Literature
  • Archives
  • Websites
  • Literature
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index of Places
  • Index of Names.

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