Bloody Brilliant: A History of Blood Groups and Blood Groupers.

CONCLUSIONS What a joy and privilege to read and reread this unique and extraordinarily informative history for this review! Pierce and Reid have authored a 633-page, 28-chapter tome, containing 796 illustrations, including photographs of individual contributors to the field of blood group serology, as well as group photographs of landmark meetings and conferences held during the past 100 years. The Index lists the names of 1046 individuals who are acknowledged as contributors to the history of blood group serology, many of whom are the subject of cameo biographies.