"Blood: You've Never Heard About It Like This" — if the phrase weren't so clichéd, it would be a fitting title for this book, as it fully captures the authors' intent. Blood is the life within us. It speaks about our heredity, health, lifestyle, and us as a biological species. It is a social network through which organs communicate. This liquid is imbued with various meanings; it is used in rituals, visual arts, and culinary practices. It is associated with diseases and scandals. Discover your own inner sea.

The authors, hematology specialists, discuss blood, presenting both the latest research data and stories from medical practice.

"This book is not confined by rigid frameworks and is written in an accessible language. Well-known facts intertwine with stories from the everyday lives of medical professionals. Some cases occurred under the microscope in the lab, others during night shifts in the clinic, but all of them create the story of blood, which is written alongside the history of humanity. (...) Blood is a world. A vast, constantly renewing world within us, where the new is born and the old dies. It has its own filters — cell graveyards, production mechanisms — tissue nurseries, as well as signal conductors, sometimes transmitting over very long distances: hormones, DNA, specialized cells, etc. In this world, full of fantasies, myths, legends, and symbols, the authors are well-versed and introduce us to it." — Philippe Charlier, French paleopathologist