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Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia, showing how those meanings provide a gateway to understanding the social, political, and cultural dynamics of modern life.
In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a sourc…
Biochemie
by Deutzmann, Rainer, Rassow, Joachim, Hauser, Karin, Netzker, Roland
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Duale Reihe Biochemie
by Deutzmann, Rainer, Rassow, Joachim, Hauser, Karin, Netzker, Roland
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Taschenatlas Biochemie des Menschen
by Wirth, Jürgen, Koolman, Jan, Röhm, Klaus-Heinrich, Wirth, Nora
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"Hematologies examines how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life in north India in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"--.
"Hematologies examines how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life in north India in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"--
A far-reaching account of blood in ritual, and its potency as a symbol of life, death, and gender. Ranging from ancient to modern times and encompassing beliefs from around the world, this work sites blood at the centre of cultural development.
