Description
Every day, millions of people have diagnostic laboratory tests or donate blood. Why is blood so important? Blood reaches every remote corner of our being, provides nutrients, carries oxygen, and removes impurities from tissues. Blood is not only a transport and defense system, but it also plays a crucial role in maintaining the balance of all the other body systems and organs. All living beings (whether they are warm-blooded such as mammals and birds or cold-blooded such as insects, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrate animals) live thanks to blood, which is essential for life. We all take for granted its existence and importance, without knowing what it contains and its countless and amazing properties.
This book is a voyage we would like to take with our readers: it is organized into 4 parts going from the history of blood in religion and ancient populations via the basic science of blood, disorders that we all hear about every day, through to the use of blood and its components in treating several diseases.
The Authors have written this book because of their longstanding academic experience in the science related to blood and to disseminate their knowledge to the widest possible audience. This work has been designed to be as comprehensible as possible to diverse groups of individuals who are interested in science in general and in blood in particular. In addition, because several technical terms may not be familiar to the readers a detailed glossary is provided.
.- Religious and social aspects.
.- Bloodletting, an ancient therapy.
.- Blood, racism, and misbeliefs.
.- Women, blood, and prejudices.
.- The discovery of blood.
.- The composition of blood, Cells and Plasma.
.- Hematology and Immunology.
.- Where blood is made, the Bone Marrow.
.- How blood gets around the body.
.- Not having enough hemoglobin: anemia.
.- When blood does not clot properly
GUGLIELMO MARIANI Currently, tenured professor of hematology at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. From 2014 to 2020 was a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster, London. In 1976 was Professor of Hematology at the University of Mogadishu, Somalia. From 1994 to 2003 was head of Units of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at the University of Palermo, Medical School, and from 2003 to 2012 was head of the Internal Medicine Unit at the University of L Aquila, Medical School. From 1994 to 2012, Director of the Schools of Specialization in Hematology at the Universities of Palermo and L Aquila. His scientific activity includes 376 publications, mostly in International scientific, peer-reviewed Journals and three chapters in Scientific Manuals.
His international activities include: Chairmanship of the Medical Advisory Board, World Federation of Hemophilia, Montreal (1990-94), Co-ordination of the Immune-Tolerance Study Group (1990-98), Co-ordination of the International FVII Study Group, (1998-2004). Co-ordination of the Seven Treatment Evaluation Registry Study Group (2004-2013), Co-ordination of two EU research projects (one Concerted Action and one TEMPUS project), PI in three EU TEMPUS projects aimed at university restructuring in southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, in collaboration with the Westminster University). He is also the Author of 9 published novels, one unpublished, and one pièce for theatre. Additionally, one sport manual was published: The Jogger Manual. One book of scientific divulgation (Blood: the Science, History and Mysteries of Life s Vital Flow [Co-authors PM Mannucci, PM Lydyard]) is in press by Elsevier-Nature.
PETER MALDWYN LYDYARD Currently Emeritus Professor of Immunology at University College, London, UK; Visiting Professor/Research scientist at the University of Westminster, London, UK and Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia. He is an honorary Professor at several Georgian Universities. He was an adjunct Professor of Immunology at Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire, USA from 1998 - 2015. He coordinated/co-coordinated 7 Tempus/Erasmus European Projects for providing teaching hardware and introducing courses in immunology and biomedical sciences to Universities in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine from 1995 to 2017. He has 47 years of University teaching experience. He is an author o
