![]() ![]() Controversy unfolded when Jean-Baptiste Denis, a French physician who was not well respected in his profession, was desperate to make a name for himself. The first blood transfusions on record took place in France during the 17th century. What she uncovered, purely by accident, led to her book about the history of blood transfusions, “ Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution“. Holly Tucker, a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, was going about her usual business as she researched information for a class lecture on the discovery of blood circulation by an English physician in the 1620s. Medicine and murder were two words I did not expect to see together in the title of an NPR talk on the history of blood transfusions. ![]() Newsletter Archive 2002-2019 (LifeLink)īy Julie Ruel, Social Media Manager, Stanford Blood Center. ![]()
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