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In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a contested therapy because it meant crossing boundaries and challenging taboos. Was the transfusion of lamb blood into desperately sick humans really defensible? The book takes the reader on a journey into hospital wards and lunatic asylums, physiological laboratories and 19th century wars. It presents a fascinating story of medical knowledge, ambitions and concerns - a story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care.
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Keywords
- 19th century
- Animal
- Blood transfusion
- clinical practice
- Cultural history
- History
- history of medicine
- history of science
- Human
- Human-Animal Studies
- Lamb Blood
- medical history
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
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DOI: 10.14361/9783839451632Editions