Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
By: Rose George
3.83
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of…
Want to Read $ 11.17"There is nothing like it. It is stardust and the sea. The iron in our blood comes from the death of supernovas, like all iron on our planet.5 This bright red liquid—brighter in the arteries, when it is 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."-Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
"There is nothing like it. It is stardust and the sea. The iron in our blood comes from the death of supernovas, like all iron on our planet.5 This bright red liquid—brighter in the arteries, when it is 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."-Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
"She squints into the distance, this young woman who looks strong but who statistics say is still too vulnerable to violence and abuse and infection. I want her to triumph because she deserves to. I know that countless people are working ferociously to find cures, solutions, innovations, outreach, to marshal every weapon against HIV. I know all that and try to remember it. But I also know the numbers. So I see this young black woman looking into the distance, and I see her seeing that HIV is coming. It is still coming despite our best efforts and it is coming for her."-Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
"She squints into the distance, this young woman who looks strong but who statistics say is still too vulnerable to violence and abuse and infection. I want her to triumph because she deserves to. I know that countless people are working ferociously to find cures, solutions, innovations, outreach, to marshal every weapon against HIV. I know all that and try to remember it. But I also know the numbers. So I see this young black woman looking into the distance, and I see her seeing that HIV is coming. It is still coming despite our best efforts and it is coming for her."-Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
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28. Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
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