Good blood : a doctor, a donor, and the incredible breakthrough that saved millions of babies
Guthrie, Julian2021
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Here is a remarkable, uplifting story about one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a 14-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 a horrible affliction known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother's immune system to attack her own unborn child.
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Author:
Guthrie, Julian, author
Imprint:
New York : Abrams, 2021.
Collation:
256 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781419747984 (pbk)
Dewey class:
618.3261618.326
LC class:
RG629.E78
Language:
English
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BRN:
2910735