![]() ![]() Norton, March 21, $25.95), Tucker follows the exploits of Jean-Baptiste Denis, an ambitious young physician who decided to make a name for himself by experimenting with the dangerous new idea of transfusion. In Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution (W.W. Their story, as told in a new book by Vanderbilt University historian Holly Tucker, is vivid, strange, and reveals much about modern medicine. It was not much different in 17th-century Europe at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution, when a band of natural philosophers armed with knives and goose-quill tubes began to investigate the idea of transferring blood from one person or animal to another. Blood and the process of removing it from people are objects of enduring cultural fascination, as the glut of teenage vampire novels can attest. ![]()
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