An eye-opening exploration of blood, the life giving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakThrough science.
Nine Pints was named one of Bill Gates\' recommended summer reading titles for 2019..
Spanning science and politics, stories and global epidemics, Nine Pints reveals our life\'s Blood in an entirely new light.
And she looks to the future, as researchers seek to bring synthetic Blood to a hospital near you.
She probes the lucrative business of plasma transfusions, in which the US is known as the OPEC of plasma.
She introduces Janet Vaughan, who set up the world\'s first system of mass Blood donation during the Blitz, and Arunachalam Muruganantham, known as Menstrual Man for his work on sanitary pads for developing countries.
In Nine Pints , she takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to the breakThrough of the liquid biopsy, which promises to diagnose cancer and other diseases with a simple Blood test.
Rose George, author of The Big Necessity , is renowned for her intrepid work on topics that are invisible but vitally important.
And for all its ubiquitousness, the few tablespoons of Blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo: menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event.
Each one of us has roughly Nine pints of it, yet many don\'t even know their own Blood type.
It can save lives and transmit deadly infections.
It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil.
Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint.
An eye-opening exploration of blood, the life giving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakThrough science
