Good blood, a doctor, a donor, and the incredible breakthrough that saved millions of babies, Julian Guthrie
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Good blood, a doctor, a donor, and the incredible breakthrough that saved millions of babies, Julian Guthrie
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Good blood
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Julian Guthrie
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a doctor, a donor, and the incredible breakthrough that saved millions of babies
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"In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross, or how they would change the world. In Good Blood, bestselling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible blood disease known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother's immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very di
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