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Blood
Lawrence Hill
其他書名
A Biography of the Stuff of Life
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2014-06-05
主題
History / Social History
Medical / History
ISBN
1780745478
9781780745473
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lhy9DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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It’s everywhere: from the laws of citizenship to the detection of doping in sport, from the books of the Old Testament and the acts of
Macbeth
to the mudbloods of
Harry Potter
and the vampires of
Twilight
. Blood fills our imagination, just as fully as it fills our veins.
In this provocative exploration of the medical and social history of blood, from ancient times to today, award-winning novelist Lawrence Hill considers blood’s scientific, cultural, psychological and political aspects. He charts how our understanding of blood has developed over the centuries, sharing a close-up view of William Harvey’s bloody dissection table at which the seventeenth-century physician shocked his peers, using a live dog to prove that blood circulates. But blood isn’t just about the body, and Hill also reveals how ideas about blood purity have spawned rules on who gets to belong to a family, who enjoys the rights of citizenship and what defines a person’s identity. As Hill powerfully and lyrically conveys, blood counts in virtually every aspect of our being that matters.