Blood Groups in Man

Blood Groups in Man; by R. R. Race, Ph.D., M.R.C.S., Director, Medical Research Council Blood Group Research Unit, Lister Institute, London; and Ruth Sanger. Ph.D., B.Sc., Medical Research Council Blood Group Research Unit, Lister Institute, London; Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A., first printed August 1950. Printed in Great Britain. From the blurb Conservative in their publicity, the publishers have no hesitation in describing this volume as the most up-to-date and authoritative account on the blood groups in existence. The authors present a comprehensive account of the blood groups, with emphasis upon the advances made during the past decade on the Rh factor and on the more recently discovered groups. Special reference is made to the manner of the inheritance of blood groups, to their importance in the science of human genetics, and to the frequencies of the various groups. These frequencies are in the main confined to European races: data of a wider ethnological and zoological nature will be the subject of a further monograph in this haematological series. Ruth Ann Sanger FRS (1918 2001) was an Australian immunogeneticist, haematologist and serologist. She was known for her work on human red cell antigens and for the genetic mapping of the human X chromosome. She was Director of the Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit, of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine from 1973 to 1983. She worked closely with Robert Russell Race from the 1940s, and they married in 1956. They co-authored many papers after 1948, and co-wrote six editions of a leading work on blood groups, Blood Groups in Man, which helped make blood transfusions safer. The book was known as "Race and Sanger", which were published between 1950 and 1975. This book, 290 pages, is in very-good condition in a very-good dust jacket that is now enclosed in a mylar wrap. The covers are only but firmly attached to the text by the binding webbing. However, the book is very sound and square. A very important book in its day.…