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• 血液を軸に医療に関する諸問題を解き明かす。

  医学の黎明期から遡って、医療・輸血・血液の歴史と社会との関わりを考えさせてくれる名著です。 特に、対象国を限定した作品ではないですが、日本についても、戦後の売血制度、ライシャワー大使襲撃事件、薬害エイズ、肝炎問題等が詳細に語られており、「よくここまで調べてあるな。」と感じ入りました。 「血液」を軸に、医療倫理と経済産業・社会構造について深い知識と洞察を与えてくれる本です。各国（イギリス・ドイツ・フランス・カナダ・スイス）の薬害エイズ問題について詳しく知りたい方にも最適な本です。

• El autor escribe de una manera atrapante la historia del uso de la sangre en la medicina. Ofrece un trasfondo sólido para conocer cómo se ha utilizado a través del tiempo este fluido tan valioso. Lo recomiendo.

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• un journaliste qui livre un travail d'investigation minutieuse et documentée à la manière des Hommes du Président. Un sujet très (trop !) rarement abordé que celui du lobby du sang. Je recommande vivement (dommage qu'il n'existe pas de version en français)

• An entertaining account of blood from a cultural and medical perspective that's studded with individual stories and historical context. I found it extremely interesting, learning a great deal about the challenges faced by the medical profession when developing blood transfusion into a reliable, lifesaving process and beyond. The scope of this book is enormous but I particularly enjoyed the insight into how medicine moved from quackery to a scientific discipline. The book is not that easy to get hold of in the UK - I had to buy 2nd hand, however, I am glad I did and would happily recommend this excellent book to others. It is very readable and littered with facts that will make you more interesting to people with an interest in blood-facts.

• This book was very informative and interesting but it seemed focused primarily on transfusions. While that is fascinating and it provides a nice overview of the development of this process, I wanted more. I was really invested in the early chapters where they talked about managing the physical aspects of transfusions (from better equipment to blood typing and the chemistry to store blood and keep it from clotting) and started to lose interest in the middle when it went on and on about plasma products. It picked up again at the end a bit more (and all that plasma product talk became more relevant) when it went into the spread of hepatitis and AIDS. What I would have liked to see was more about blood itself and not just its byproducts and use in transfusions, but information about how it became so widely used to test so many things in the body and when they started using these tests, how that fit in with the overall history we were being given. We're given a little info on testing related to AIDS and hepatitis but not to other diseases that can be determined by a blood test or other levels of things in the blood that can tell us about our health. Likewise we are told about the evolution of transfusion equipment but not about basic phlebotomy practices (switching from syringes to the evacuated tube system for example). I'd also like to read about the use of blood in forensics; how viable the samples they get are and how much they can learn from them. But the book focuses singularly on transfusions and blood products as if this is all we've ever done with blood, without even a passing mention to other branches of development.

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