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

• Superior document: Medical Humanities ; v.5
• Author: Berner, Boel.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medical Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)

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.