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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood

Rose George

Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us, discovering what it reveals about who we are. In Nepal, she meets girls challenging the taboos surrounding menstruation; in the Canadian prairies, she visits a controversial plasma clinic; in Wales she gets a tour of the UK's only leech farm to learn about the vital role the creatures still play in modern surgery; and in a London hospital she accompanies a medical team revolutionising the way we treat trauma.

Nine Pints reveals the richness and wonder of the potent red fluid that courses around our bodies, unseen but miraculous.

  • Classification : Medicine
  • Pub Date : AUG 1, 2019
  • Imprint : Granta
  • Page Extent : 384
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781846276149
  • Price : INR 1,299
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Rose George

Rose George is a British journalist and author. She has been a postwar correspondent, a writer of reportage, and a regular book reviewer. She has written four non-fiction books. A Life Removed, The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters; Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry the Brings you 90% of Everything; Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood and Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive into the World of Fishes and Fishing. She graduated with a First-Class Honours BA in Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford, in 1992 and an MA in International Politics in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar and Fulbright Fellow. S
www.rosegeorge.com

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