Explore the history of blood from vampires to the ‘Menstrual Man’
Nine Pints offers engaging and insightful stories about the life-giving substance
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MEANINGFUL DONATION Every three seconds, someone receives a blood donation, writes Rose George in Nine Pints. “The movement of blood — a body part, after all — between people is a procedure common enough to be banal and unquestioned. But it is wondrous, still. It is as wondrous as blood.”
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