NINE PINTS
A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Rose George
“Rarely does one encounter such beautifully crafted prose in the service of nonfiction. Bloody hell, this is a good book.”
—Mary Roach,
author of Grunt
“Rarely does one encounter such beautifully crafted prose in the service of nonfiction. Bloody hell, this is a good book.”
—Mary Roach,
author of Grunt
In Nine Pints, Rose George takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to the breakthough of the "liquid biopsy," which promises to diagnose cancer and other diseases with a simple blood test. She introduces Janet Vaughan, who set up the world’s first system of mass blood donation during the Blitz, and Arunachalam Muruganantham, known as “Menstrual Man” for his work on sanitary pads for developing countries. She probes the lucrative business of plasma transfusions, in which the US is known as the “OPEC of plasma.” And she looks to the future, as researchers seek to bring synthetic blood to a hospital near you.
Spanning science and politics, stories and global epidemics, Nine Pints reveals our life's blood in an entirely new light.
Rose George