What connects scientific breakthroughs, political concepts, and the condition of your body? Blood is the main hero of this book, presented in all its variety: from ancient rituals to modern hematology, from the history of blood groups to stubborn misconceptions.
This illustrated edition, prepared for the 100th anniversary of the world’s first Institute of Blood Transfusion, with the support of NМИЦ hematology, is a reliable, captivating, and genuinely engrossing story about what life is impossible without.
These pages are about more than blood as a vital system of our body; they also show how attitudes toward it have changed over the centuries, what discoveries scientists made, and why blood sometimes became a tool of politics. You will learn intriguing facts about the emergence of hematology, about diseases this branch of medicine helps to treat, about the origins of blood groups, and about the most common myths surrounding them. The book was created together with the “National Medical Research Center for Hematology” of the Ministry of Health of Russia and is timed to the centenary of the establishment of the world’s first state Institute of Blood Transfusion.