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This book was a fascinating listen! It describes very little about how blood works inside the body. Instead, 9 chapters focus on more external factors like blood donation vs. payment for plasma, leeches, hemophilia, HIV & Hepatitis C, blood usage in trauma care, cultural views of menstruation, menstrual products, possibilities of synthetic blood, and blood as medical treatment. It combines history and current medicine.

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So good!

“Details of what goes into tampons and sanitary pads are sparse... If we were inserting lollipops in our vaginas, we‘d know a lot more about them.” Both funny and scary

Getting more recognition? “As this is Britain, the recognition often consists of free hot drinks and nods and waves from police and paramedics.” 😂

Blood is the “stuff that spurts out when you are not very well.” Yes. Hard to argue with that I guess.

Hello my fellow book friends I finished nine pints a couple of weeks ago and jumped immediately into The Red Market by Scott Carney and I can‘t get enough of this topic! So I need your help on what to read next on this topic of this crazy body parts market.😲 #scribd4life

🎧 if you are curious about blood this is the book for you!! It‘s infinitely fascinating but you cannot be squeamish at all & be ready for some seriously gross strait talk! You‘ve been warned. Factual and seriously more than you will ever want to know about blood! Recommendation. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Hey @Megabooks Have you listened to either of these??? I‘m thinking of purchasing them
Any other Littens try either of these audiobooks??? #AudibleSale

Everything you ever wanted to know about blood (and some you didn‘t)!! The chapter on leeches (gag) gave me the willies, though they were a significant part of what we now know about blood.

Parts of this book I found captivating and truly couldn‘t put the book down. Other chapters and subjects truly had me struggling to get through, and were a bit depressing. That said, definitely worth a read and I learned so many new wonderful things about blood.

The average adult has 9 pints of blood. In this book, George discusses different aspects of blood (and the blood industry) in 9 chapters. She covers everything from bloodletting and leeches (historical and modern uses), to the history of British blood banks, to blood-transmitted diseases (especially AIDS and Hep C), to menstrual practices, to trauma treatment, to vampires and the possibility of manufactured blood. Info-dense but very good!