Pale faces : the masks of anemia / Charles L. Bardes ; drawings by Barbara Kilpatrick.

New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2008.

192 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-185) and index.

Diseasification -- Pallor -- The malice sickle -- The green sicknesse -- Anemia's old tale -- What the doctor is thinking -- Diagnostic ceremonies -- Spleen -- Marrow -- Diseases of the blood -- Anemia world -- Iron -- Bloodletting -- Transfusion -- Is anemia good for you? -- The blood of the Medusa -- The birth of clinical tragedy -- Why again Greeks?