{"product_id":"five-quarts-a-personal-and-natural-history-of-blood-paperback","title":"Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBill B. Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This beguiling brew of fascinating scientific facts and illuminating, poignant anecdotes makes Five Quarts something like blood itself: vital and pulsing with energy.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Entertainment Weekly \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where machines test blood for diseases and scientists search for elusive cures, Bill Hayes takes us on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by way of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies. Hayes also recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of five sisters and their monthly cycles to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man. As much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man's life, Five Quarts is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe're born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries.\u003cbr\u003e-from\" Five Quarts\" \u003cbr\u003eIn the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on a trailblazing trip through the night country of insomnia. Now he is our guide on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by means of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies. \u003cbr\u003eProfusely illustrated, the journey stretches from ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where high-tech machines test blood for diseases and dedicated scientists search for elusive cures. Along the way, there will be world-changing triumphs: William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's advances in making the invisible world visible in the early days of the microscope; Dr. Paul Ehrlich's Nobel-Prize-winning work in immunology; Dr. Jay Levy's codiscovery of the virus that causes AIDS. Yet there will also be ignorance and tragedy: the widespread practice of bloodletting via incision and the use of leeches, which harmed more than it healed; the introduction of hemophilia into the genetic pool of nineteenth-century European royalty thanks to the dynastic ambitions of Queen Victoria; the alleged spread of contaminated blood through a phlebotomist's negligence in modern-day California. \u003cbr\u003eThis is also a personal voyage, in which Hayes recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of five sisters andtheir monthly cycles, to coming out as a gay man during the explosive early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man. \u003cbr\u003eAs much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man's life, \"Five Quarts is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving. It will get under your skin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, Bill Hayes is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of four books: \u003ci\u003eSleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFive Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInsomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me \u003c\/i\u003e(coming February 2017), and is currently at work on a new book \u003ci\u003eSweat: A History of Exercise.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A photographer as well as a writer, his photos have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and on CBS Evening News. His portraits of his partner, the late Oliver Sacks, appear in the recent collection of Dr. Sacks's suite of final essays \u003ci\u003eGratitude\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hayes has been a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, the recipient of a Leon Levy Foundation grant, and a Resident Writer at Blue Mountain Center. He has also served as a guest lecturer at Stanford, NYU, UCSF, University of Virginia, and the New York Academy of Medicine.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701781172320,"sku":"9780345456885","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/five-quarts-a-personal-and-natural-history-of-blood-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}