EAN: 9781419743313

GOOD BLOOD A DOCTOR A DONOR AND THE INCREDIBLE ...

A remarkable  uplifting story about one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th
centuryIn 1951 in Sydney  Australia  a fourteen-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  bestselling writer Julian Guthrie tells the
gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible a iction known as Rh disease that stalked families
and caused a mother's immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by
two very di erent men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York  who would land on a
brilliant yet contrarian idea  and the unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood-and his
unyielding devotion to donating it-would save millions of lives.Good Blood takes us from
Australia to America  from research laboratories to hospitals  and even into Sing Sing prison 
where experimental blood trials were held. It is a tale of discovery and invention  the
progress and pitfalls of medicine  and the everyday heroics that fundamentally changed the
health of women and babies.

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