Blood

Iiosifina Foskolou is a cancer biologist with joint appointments in Amsterdam and Cambridge. She has authored numerous scientific journal articles and received research awards/grants in Oxford, Cambridge, and the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. She is a strong advocate of women in science. Martin Jones is an archaeologist with an interest in food and diet. He is editor/co-editor of eight volumes, author of 150 scientific papers and four books. Among those books, Feast: Why Humans Share Food received the 2008 Food Book of the Year Award from the Guild of Food Writers.

• Notes on Contributors; Introduction Iosifina Foskolou and Martin Jones; 1. Battle Blood Claire Roddie; 2. Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England Sara Read; 3. Blood in Motion, or The Physics of Blood Flow Tim Pedley; 4. 'Dracula', Blood, and the New Woman: Stoker's Reflections on the Zeitgeist Carol Senf; 5. Blood Lines of the British People Walter Bodmer; 6. Heroes and Villains of Blood Rose George; 7. Cold Blood: Some Ways by which Animals Cope with Low Temperatures Stuart Egginton; 8. Blood Sculptures Marc Quinn; Index.