NPR Interview
In her new book “Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, Vanderbilt University professor Holly Tucker tells the sometimes gory history of blood transfusions, a practice that she says began before doctors knew anything about blood types or immunology.
IRA FLATOW, host:
You’re listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY. I’m Ira Flatow.
Up next, a tale of blood, I guess is how you might say it. If you’ve ever gotten a blood transfusion, you know that it can be a lifesaving medical treatment, but it must be done very carefully because if you give somebody the wrong blood type, you can cause a deadly immune reaction. So there are checks and double-checks to make sure that those A’s and B’s and O’s, well, they all match up.
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