Good Blood: A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of BabiesThe New York Times–bestselling author of How to Make a Spaceship presents the remarkable, uplifting story of a life-saving medical breakthrough. In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross, or how they would change the world. In Good Blood, Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure Rh disease, a horrible blood disease that caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very di?erent men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea, and an unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood—and his unyielding devotion to donating it—would save millions of lives. Good Blood takes us from research laboratories to hospitals, and even into Sing Sing prison, where experimental blood trials were held. It is a tale of discovery and invention, the progress and pitfalls of medicine, and the everyday heroics that fundamentally changed the health of women and babies. |
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Contents
CHAPTER FIVE | |
CHAPTER SEVEN | |
CHAPTER NINE | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | |
CHAPTER NINETEEN | |
CHAPTER TWENTY | |
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO | |
EPILOGUE | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
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| Title | Good Blood: A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies |
| Author | Julian Guthrie |
| Publisher | Abrams, 2020 |
| ISBN | 1647000157, 9781647000158 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients) Medical / Diseases Medical / History Medical / Research |
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