Blood and Justice

Blood and Justice: The 17 Century Parisian Doctor Who Made Blood Transfusion History [Format Kindle]

Author: Pete Moore | Language: English | ISBN: B000WDINQ8 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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"…the author has told a fascinating story that is not without contemporary resonance…" (The Sunday Telegraph, 10 November 2002) "…Dr Pete Moore’s enthralling, closely researched and very peculiar tale of Jean–Baptiste Denis’s attempts at blood transfusion…" (Daily Telegraph, 7 December 2002) "…a hair–raising chronicle of the kinds of experiments that would never be allowed today…" (Focus, February 2003) "…Pete Moore′s entertaining book describes the people and ideas at the heart of the issue..." (Times Literary Supplement, 24 January 2003) "…Moore writes in an informed, often amusing way about the bizarre and gory experiments that resulted in today’s medical practices…" (Good Book Guide, February 2003) "Dr Moore not only tells a good story about past events, he also provides an illustrative case study…" (Nursing Standard, 13 August 2003) “…Pete Moore has also created a tantalizing tale of mystique and macabre..."  (Medical History, Vol 48 No 4 October 2004)

"…the author has told a fascinating story that is not without contemporary resonance…" (The Sunday Telegraph, 10 November 2002) "…Dr Pete Moore’s enthralling, closely researched and very peculiar tale of Jean–Baptiste Denis’s attempts at blood transfusion…" (Daily Telegraph, 7 December 2002) "…a hair–raising chronicle of the kinds of experiments that would never be allowed today…" (Focus, February 2003) "…Pete Moore′s entertaining book describes the people and ideas at the heart of the issue..." (Times Literary Supplement, 24 January 2003) "…Moore writes in an informed, often amusing way about the bizarre and gory experiments that resulted in today’s medical practices…" (Good Book Guide, February 2003) "Dr Moore not only tells a good story about past events, he also provides an illustrative case study…" (Nursing Standard, 13 August 2003) “…Pete Moore has also created a tantalizing tale of mystique and macabre..." (Medical History, Vol 48 No 4 October 2004)

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The 17th Century Parisian doctor who made blood transfusion history...

In 1667 a Parisian doctor by the name of Jean-Baptiste Denis performed an operation that had never previously been attempted - he transfused blood into another human being. This was the first attempt at a procedure that over subsequent centuries was to save the lives of thousands of people. But at the time Denis was nearly convicted of murder.

The victim of Denis's experiment was a middle-aged man suffering from mad rages. Denis believed that by transfusing the blood of a calf into the man the man would assume the placid nature of the calf. The experiment appeared to work. The highly toxic blood made the man in question very ill and therefore very placid. It is now believed that the man was in fact suffering from syphilis, which induced his violent behaviour. The symptoms of the syphilis would also have been relieved by the high fever that the toxic blood would have induced.

Encouraged by this apparent success, though unaware of the reasons for it, many other people attempted similar experiments.

Eventually the man died and Denis was arrested for his murder. Further investigations revealed however that the man had not in fact died from the blood transfusion (although he certainly would have done so very shortly) but from cyanide placed in his food by his wife.

Giving an insight into the first attempts at a procedure that has gone on to be developed for the benefit of humanity, and into the symbolism of blood throughout the history of medicine, Blood and Justice raises ethical issues that are as relevant today as they were at the time.

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• Editeur : Wiley; àdition : 1 (10 décembre 2007)
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While we take blood transfusions for granted now, they rightly seem to us a product of modern science. It was only after the work of Karl Landsteiner, who won the 1930 Nobel Prize for it, that we knew about blood groups and who could swap blood with whom. Transfusions, however, had a history going back to 1490, when Pope Innocent VIII was in deteriorating health and his physician determined that he needed the blood of three healthy boys. No one knows exactly what happened, but the boys died, and the pope did, too. In the increasing rationalism of the seventeenth century, Jean-Baptiste Denis, a French mathematician and astronomer, began to wonder about swapping blood. It is a strange episode of inchoate scientific investigation, related in _Blood and Justice: The 17th Century Parisian Doctor Who Made Blood Transfusion History_ (Wiley) by Pete Moore. The author, a British medical journalist, has looked into the peculiar history of beliefs about blood, and described vividly the scientific environment in which some very unusual experiments were made.
It is important to realize that the approach of looking for evidence to support theories was something quite new when (especially) the English philosopher Francis Bacon advocated it in the early seventeenth century. There were centuries of precedent, supported by the church, of sticking to Aristotle, who did not have much of a record as an experimentalist. The experiments described here involved infusing animals with the blood of other animals, often of different species. Denis was the first one to try transfusion on humans. In 1667, having transfused a couple of patients with sheep's blood, he was called in to see a madman named Mauroy, and it was suspected that his impure blood could be replaced by pure calf's blood and the calf's placidity would overtake the patient's madness. Mauroy died. Denis said he died before he could begin the transfusion, while Mrs. Mauroy said it was soon after the transfusion began. The Parisian faculty of physicians distrusted novelty, and didn't like an upstart making the sort of talk that Denis's successes had won, and arranged to ensure that Denis was tried for murder. Convenient evidence came up that Mrs. Mauroy had used arsenic on her husband; whether or not she was a murderer, Denis certainly wasn't, and he went free. He had hoped that his name would be made by his blood work, but he tended to stick to math and astronomy thereafter. The Catholic Church banned transfusions in 1675.
Transfusion is a good idea, but all those centuries ago, science had not developed sufficiently to make it a good idea. Moore's book is good at setting scenes, and explaining the rationale of the experiments of the time. It is a good instruction on experimentation done just for the sake of seeing what happens, without any real theory as guidance. It is also good in comparing the feelings of the seventeenth century public, who were fearful or enthusiastic about the new treatment, with the feelings of the twenty-first century public, who have fear and enthusiasm for, say, genetically engineered corn, or for cloning. The old worries of "Who has the right to play God?" were present then and now, and representations in the popular press were and are often less than helpful. It is thus that this weird episode of bloodletting has a contemporary resonance.

Par R. Hardy
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I thought this was a good book generally, until the chapter titled "The Great Debate." This fictional conference has no place in a non-fiction work. Until this point in the book, the references were presented as citations. On a separate note, the phonetic inclusion of Willis' stutter was unnecessary.

Par bookstravel
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