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In December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calf s
blood into one of Paris s most notorious madmen. Days later, the
madman was dead and Denis was framed for murder. A riveting expose
of the fierce debates, deadly politics, and cutthroat rivalries
behind the first transfusion experiments, Blood Work takes us from
dissection rooms in palaces to the streets of Paris, providing an
unforgettable portrait of an era that wrestled with the same
questions about morality and experimentation that haunt medical
science today."
In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring
order to the city of Paris after the brutal deaths of two
magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic yet fearless, tackles the dirty and
terrifying streets only to discover a tightly knit network of
witches, poisoners and priests whose reach extends all the way to
Versailles. As the chief investigates a growing number of deaths at
court, he learns that no one is safe from their deadly love potions
and "inheritance stews"-not even the Sun King himself. Based on
court transcripts and Reynie's compulsive note-taking, Holly
Tucker's riveting true crime narrative makes the characters breathe
on the page as she follows the police chief into the dark
labyrinths of crime-ridden Paris, the glorious halls of royal
palaces, secret courtrooms and torture chambers in a tale of
deception and murder that reads like fiction.
In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring
order to the city of Paris after the brutal deaths of two
magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic yet fearless, tackles the dirty and
terrifying streets only to discover a tightly knit network of
witches, poisoners and priests whose reach extends all the way to
Versailles. As the chief investigates a growing number of deaths at
court, he learns that no one is safe from their deadly love potions
and "inheritance stews"-not even the Sun King himself. Based on
court transcripts and Reynie's compulsive note-taking, Holly
Tucker's riveting true crime narrative makes the characters breathe
on the page as she follows the police chief into the dark
labyrinths of crime-ridden Paris, the glorious halls of royal
palaces, secret courtrooms and torture chambers in a tale of
deception and murder that reads like fiction.
Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early
modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were
used to rethink gendered "truths" at a key moment in the history of
ideas. How male medical authorities and female literary authors
struggled to describe the inner workings of the unseen--and
competed to shape public understanding of it--is the focus of this
engaging work by Holly Tucker. In illuminating the gender politics
underlying dramatic changes in reproductive theory and practice,
Tucker shows just how tenuous the boundaries of scientific "fact"
and marvelous fictions were in early modern France. On the literary
front, Tucker argues, women used the fairy tale to rethink the
biology of childbirth and the sociopolitical uses to which it had
been put. She shows that in references to midwives, infertility,
sex selection, and embryological theories, fairy-tale writers
experimented with alternative ways of understanding pregnancy. In
so doing they suggested new ways in which to envision women,
knowledge, and power in both the public and the private spheres.
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