BLOOD WORK; A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. Half tones. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering over maroon "blood-colored" boards, illustrated with a number of B&W period exempla, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with depiction of a man being bled, xxix + [iii] + 304 pages. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #1376
ISBN: 9780393070552
"Taking us from the highest ranks of society to the lowest, from dissection rooms in palaces to the filth-clogged streets of Paris, Blood Work sheds light on an era that wrestled with the same questions about morality and experimentation taht haunt medical science to this day."--jacket.
Holly Tucker is an associate professor at Vanderbilt specializing in the history of medicine. This highly informative study deals with "schemers and dreamers, criminals and chemists."
SIGNED & in Superior Condition: tight, bright, clean in a VF dj. Previous owner's colorful bookplate on free front endpaper.
Price: $40.00