Vanderbilt Reviews “Blood Work”
French professor Holly Tucker delves into the fascinating history of blood transfusions
Watching the State of the Union address by President George W. Bush in 2006, Holly Tucker was struck by the president’s strong statements about interspecies stem cell research.
In the speech, Bush called for “legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research, (including) creating human-animal hybrids.”
At the time, Tucker was researching the early history of blood transfusions. Those experiments in 17th-century France involved putting the blood of animals into humans to try and cure various maladies. The fear of pig-faced humans and centaurs roaming the countryside became part of that debate.
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