Listen: History of blood transfusion speaks to stem cell debate

by Ann Marie Deer Owens | Posted on Monday, Apr. 18, 2011 — 12:53 PM

Holly Tucker, an associate professor of French, has written a fascinating early history of blood transfusions that reads like an eerie murder mystery. Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution has implications for modern ethical dilemmas such as cloning and stem cell procedures.

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