An extraordinary story of the doctors who cured a deadly condition and the one man whose decades of blood donation saved the lives of millions of babies
Julian Guthrie is a journalist and author based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent twenty years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she won numerous awards and had her writing nominated multiple times for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of four previous books, including the bestsellers The Billionaire and the Mechanic,How to Make a Spaceship, and her most recent, Alpha Girls.
“a readable pop-history account of medical research that turned out
spectacularly.”
*Kirkus Reviews*
“Guthrie vividly captures the determination and commitment of her
two main subjects”
*Publishers Weekly*
“In a true tour de force, Julian Guthrie spans decades of intensive
research amid celebrated discoveries that highlight the final
successful treatment of Rh disease. Good Blood is a good read about
a major medical achievement that continues to save lives throughout
the world.”
*Professor of Medicine, UC San Francisco*
“Chief Seattle said, ‘All things are connected like the blood that
unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a
strand in it.’ In Good Blood, Julian Guthrie weaves a lyrical web
of science, selflessness, and soul that gives hope for a united
humanity. Truly a story to be savored.”
*Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics, UC-San Diego &
author of Losing the Nobel Prize*
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