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Informationen zum Autor Douglas Starr is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Codirector of the Graduate program in Science Journalism at Boston University. A former newspaper reporter and field biologist, he has written on the environment, medicine, and science for a variety of publications including Smithsonian, Audubon, and Sports Illustrated . Starr lives near Boston with his wife and two sons. Klappentext Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail, clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popular science writing. Here is the sweeping story of a substance that has been feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--a substance that has become the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Blood was described by judges as "a gripping page-turner, a significant contribution to the history of medicine and technology and a cautionary tale. Meticulously reported and exhaustively documented." Zusammenfassung Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail! clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popular science writing. Here is the sweeping story of a substance that has been feared! revered! mythologized! and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--a substance that has become the center of a huge! secretive! and often dangerous worldwide commerce. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize! Blood was described by judges as "a gripping page-turner! a significant contribution to the history of medicine and technology and a cautionary tale. Meticulously reported and exhaustively documented."
