Nine Pints

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An eye opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds, and the promise of breakthrough scienceBlood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil It can save lives and transmit deadly infections Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don t even know their own blood type And for all its ubiquity, the few tablespoons of blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event.Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, is renowned for her intrepid work on topics that are invisible but vitally important In Nine Pints, she takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to modern hemovigilance teams that track blood borne diseases She introduces Janet Vaughan, who set up the world s first system of mass blood donation during the Blitz, and Arunachalam Muruganantham, known as Menstrual Man for his work on sanitary pads for developing countries She probes the lucrative business of plasma transfusions, in which the U.S is known as the OPEC of plasma And she looks to the future, as researchers seek to bring synthetic blood to a hospital near you.Spanning science and politics, stories and global epidemics, Nine Pints reveals our life s blood in an entirely new light. New Read Nine Pints By Rose George For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr NO SPOILERS Full disclosure book abandoned on page 145 out of 289 pages Nine pints of blood orvisually arresting one gallon plus one pint That s roughly how much is in the human body It s facts like these that author Rose George shared in Nine Pints but only in chapter one There s only so much one can say about blood itself To fill out a book, George dedicated nine chapters to different sub topics relating to blood in general The sub topics, however, are so disparate that NO SPOILERS Full disclosure book abandoned on page 145 o... Nine Pints dives deep into the science and cultural history of blood George s journalistic tenacity keeps her pushing through the statistics to find the human stories that animate the book In the first chapter we track the journey of a pint of blood that she donates in her hometown of Leeds I was particularly interested, if morbidly so, in the chapter on leeches and bloodletting Other sections journey further afield, chiefly to South Africa and India, to explore AIDS and menstruation taboos Nine Pints dives deep into the science and cultural history of blood George s journalistic tenacity keeps her pushing through the statistics to find the human stories that animate the book In the ...I ve never read Rose George before her Ninety Percent of Everything came out right as I had started another book also about, basically, shipping containers , but I ll now definitely go back and check out that one and her one about human waste, because Nine Pints A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood is terrific George reminds me of Mary Roach, who I also like though George is British, adding an additional layer of charm to my ears , in that she s smart, engaging, clea I ve never read Rose George before her Ninety Percent of Everything came out right as I had started another book also about, basically, shipping containers , but I ll now definitely go back and check out that one and her one about human waste, because Nine Pints A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood is terrific George reminds me of Mary Roach, who I also like though George is British, adding an additional layer of charm to my ears , in that she s smart, engaging, clear in her thinking, tacvkles a huge topic in an interesting, coherent way, and combines historical research with in the field reporting She s also really good at the thumbnail character sketch of the people she meets, and can t resist the witty aside, most of which actually are, in fact, funny even though her subject matter...Q Explain why you believe that reading this book makes you a fine of example of enlightened modern manhood.A It has two longish chapters about largely about menstruation, a topic which is not, as the cool kids say nowadays, in my wheelhouse.Q What do you want, some kind of medal A Yes, please, and a certificate with a red ribbon, attached with a grommet And an ice cream sundae, too, because there was also a chapter on leeches.I enjoyed this book but believe that people without sufficient kn Q Explain why you believe that reading this book makes you a fine of example of enlightened modern manhood.A It has two longish chapters about largely about menstruation, a topic which is not, as the cool kids say nowadays, in my wheelhouse.Q What do you want, some kind of medal A Yes, please, and a certificate with a red ribbon, attached with a grommet And an ice cream sundae, too, because there was also a chapter on leeches.I enjoyed this book but believe that people without sufficient knowledge of British culture might find the barrage of UK specific information a little difficult to comprehend While hardly an expert myself, I had the good fortune to live in England a long while ago, and, despite the intervening years, acquired enough knowledge to avoid frequent trips to the Google while reading.Among my fellow colonials, the amount of knowledge of Britis...Chapter 1 My Pint Chapter 2 That Most Singular and Valuable ReptileChapter 3 Janet and PercyChapter 4 Blood BorneChapter 5 The Yellow StuffChapter 6 Rotting PicklesChapter 7 Nasty ClothsChapter 8 Code RedChapter 9 Blood Like Guinness The FutureThis book talks about the nine pints of human blood we have in each of us, adults at least Though most of the content is focused around the medical uses of blood, it also takes the cultural perspective on how blood, in certain contexts, Chapter 1 My Pint Chapter 2 That Most Singular and Valuable ReptileChapter 3 Janet and PercyChapter 4 Blood BorneChapter 5 The Yellow StuffChapter 6 Rotting PicklesChapter 7 Nasty ClothsChapter 8 Code RedChapter 9 Blood Like Guinness The FutureThis book talks about the nine pints of human blood we have in each of us, adults at least Though most of the...I wouldn t normally read a book on this topic due to medical phobiaishness, but Rose George is such a good writer I thought I d risk it still had to skip a couple of chapters, though And it s great stuff lots of info packed into superior prose...I have been an RN since forever and have worked in an assortment of acute, rehab, and chronic care settings, so my views are not unbiased nor uninformed Perhaps if I give one example from each chapter it might be useful to those who speak medicalese and those who don t 1 The changing understanding of blood though millennia including the relatively recent divisions of typing, and the development o...The author is British, so the book starts out describing blood banking in Britain, and about Janet Vaughan, the woman who basically started blood banking There s a chapter on leeches and bloodletting, both the history, and current uses today Another chapter discusses HIV in South Africa, which seemed oddly irrelevant Canadian for profit blood banks, trauma surgery, vampires, and menstrual blood are all discussed I found the stereotyping of Americans the Canadian border official has been ta The author is British, so the book starts out describing blood banking in Britain, and about Janet Vaughan, the woman who basically started blood banking There s a chapter on leeches and bloodletting, both the history, and current uses today Another chapter discusses HIV in South Africa, which seemed oddly irrelevant Canadian for profit blood banks, traum...For Homer, blood had a power as fierce and invisible as electricity a mouthful of blood, a switch flicked, and Anticlea could now speak to her son Of course Homer was awed by blood There is nothing like it It is stardust and sea The iron in our blood comes from the deaths of supernovas, like all the iron on our planet This bright red liquid brighter in the arteries, when transporting oxygen around the body from the heart, duller in the veins, when it is not contains salt and water, li For Homer, blood had a power as fierce and invisible as electricity a mouthful of blood, a switch flicked, and Anticlea could now speak to her son Of course Homer was awed by blood There is nothing like it It is stardust and sea The iron in our blood comes from the deaths of supernovas, like all the iron on our planet This bright red liquid brighter in the arteries, when transporting oxygen around the body from the heart, duller in the veins, when it is not contains salt and water, like the sea we possibly came from Nine Pints is Rose George s account of humanity s current understanding of our precious and irreplaceable and expensive life giving liquid blood George travels the world to see first hand how much we truly know about blood both insi...In Nine Pints Rose George does for blood what she did for human waste in The Big Necessity Nine Pints covers issues ranging from the birth of the British blood donor service to the history and current state of medicinal leech usage to the politics of menstruation.She weaves a story around each topic, offering a very readable combination of fact, anecdote, and analysis.Despite that, I must admit my interest did flag in one or two places I think when I read The Big Necessity it introduced me to In Nine Pints Rose George does for blood what she did for human waste in The Big Necessity Nine Pints covers issues ranging from the birth of the British blood donor service to the history and current state of medicinal leech usage to the politics of menstruation.She weaves a story around each topic, offering a very readable combination of fact, anecdote, and analysis.Despite that, I must admit my interest did flag in one or two places I think when I read The Big Necessity it introduced me to a number of topics which I had never considered before, and which I think weren t widely discussed With Nine...

Nine Pints
  • English
  • 17 May 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 289 pages
  • 1627796371
  • Rose George
  • Nine Pints