Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don’t even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquity, the few tablespoons of blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo; menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event.
Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, is renowned for her intrepid work on topics that are invisible but vitally important. In Nine Pints, she takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to modern “hemovigilance” teams that track blood-borne diseases. 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 U.S. 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.
發表於2025-02-07
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Nine Pints 人體大約9品脫血液,開篇作者獻血大約1品脫。英美品脫含義不同,美國還分乾濕。本文作者為英國人應該為英式品脫,等於568.26125。人體血液一般占人體質量1/13,相對密度1.05-1.06(略重於水),摺算65公斤人體大概5公斤血液,不到5000毫升,約8.38品脫(65/13/1.05/...
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評分Nine Pints 人體大約9品脫血液,開篇作者獻血大約1品脫。英美品脫含義不同,美國還分乾濕。本文作者為英國人應該為英式品脫,等於568.26125。人體血液一般占人體質量1/13,相對密度1.05-1.06(略重於水),摺算65公斤人體大概5公斤血液,不到5000毫升,約8.38品脫(65/13/1.05/...
評分Nine Pints 人體大約9品脫血液,開篇作者獻血大約1品脫。英美品脫含義不同,美國還分乾濕。本文作者為英國人應該為英式品脫,等於568.26125。人體血液一般占人體質量1/13,相對密度1.05-1.06(略重於水),摺算65公斤人體大概5公斤血液,不到5000毫升,約8.38品脫(65/13/1.05/...
評分Nine Pints 人體大約9品脫血液,開篇作者獻血大約1品脫。英美品脫含義不同,美國還分乾濕。本文作者為英國人應該為英式品脫,等於568.26125。人體血液一般占人體質量1/13,相對密度1.05-1.06(略重於水),摺算65公斤人體大概5公斤血液,不到5000毫升,約8.38品脫(65/13/1.05/...
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