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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood Audiobook, by Rose George Play Audiobook Sample

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood Audiobook

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Read By: Karen Cass Publisher: Brilliance Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: December 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781721335961

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

94:41 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

51:02 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

69:05 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science

Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don’t even know their own blood type. 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.

Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, is renowned for her intrepid work on topics that are invisible but vitally important. In Nine Pints, she takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to modern “hemovigilance” teams that track blood-borne diseases. 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. She probes the lucrative business of plasma transfusions, in which the US is known as the “OPEC of plasma.” And she looks to the future, as researchers seek to bring synthetic blood to a hospital near you.

Spanning science and politics, stories and global epidemics, Nine Pints reveals our life's blood in an entirely new light.

Nine Pints was named one of Bill Gates' recommended summer reading titles for 2019.

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“A very good book… George brings to everything she writes a no-nonsense briskness on the page; a forensic zeal; a potent moral sensibility. She’s a nimble writer, one who walks in fear of euphemism or pretension. There are no peacock displays of pointless erudition in her work; no recondite allusions are dragged in.”

— New York Times

Quotes

  • “A wonder…An absorbing, vital book by one of the best non-fiction writers working today.”

    — Guardian (London)

Awards

  • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology

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About Rose George

Rose George is a British journalist and author. She began writing in 1994, as an intern at the Nation magazine in New York City. Later, she became a senior editor and writer at Colors magazine. In 1999, she moved to London and began a freelance career, and has since written for the Independent on Sunday, Arena, the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Details and others. Along the way, she has been war correspondent in Kosovo for Conde Nast Traveler magazine, and was twice a guest at Saddam Hussein’s birthday party. Until 2010, she was senior editor at large for Tank, a quarterly magazine of fashion, art, reportage and culture based in London.

About Karen Cass

Karen Cass is a voice artist and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator of more than thirty audiobooks.