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Douglas Starr's book BLOOD: AN EPIC HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND COMMERCE (ISBN 0-688-17649-6), available on Amazon.com, has been an invaluable resource on blood and its history. The listings below, though not comprehensive, offer a variety of useful online sources on the topic of blood.
PHYSIOLOGICAL INFORMATION
 Bloodbook.com
http://www.bloodbook.com
Comprehensive background information on blood, blood donation and transfusion, and the blood supply.
Blood
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/B/Blood.html
Detailed descriptions of blood components and blood formation with technical illustrations.
Bloodline
http://www.bloodline.net/
Hematology and oncology reference works and clinical and laboratory research.
Nobel e-Museum: Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/educational/landsteiner/readmore.html
Descriptions of blood components and blood formation.
The Circulatory System
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookcircSYS.html
Detailed descriptions and illustrations of blood vessels and circulation.
Hemophilia
http://www.hemophiliagalaxy.com/1_PATIENTS/topics/hist/hist06.html
Brief but thorough history of hemophilia treatment.
Blood: The River of Life
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115080/?c=main&tqskip1=1&tqtime=0417
Details the composition of blood, processes of the circulatory system, and some common blood disorders.
Blood Cells and the CBC
http://www.neosoft.com/~uthman/blood_cells.html
First document in a five-part series on blood cells and anemia.
TRANSFUSION INFORMATION
Transfusion
http://www.transfusion.org
Journal of transfusion medicine.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
Division of the National Institutes of Health focusing on diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lung, and blood; blood resources; and sleep disorders.
YourSurgery.com
http://www.yoursurgery.com/ProcedureDetails.cfm?BR=7&Proc=7
Journal of transfusion medicine.
Blood Safety in the Age of AIDS
http://www.faseb.org/opar/bloodsupply/blood.html
Examines the effects of the AIDS epidemic on the safety of the blood supply.
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American Association of Blood Banks
http://www.aabb.org/All_About_Blood/FAQs/aabb_faqs.htm
Facts about donating and receiving blood, where to donate and receive blood, listings of meetings across the nation, and medical and industry news updates.
American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org
Background information on blood donation, including testing, fractionation, and distribution.
America's Blood Centers
http://66.155.15.152/aboutabc/default.htm
Non-profit international network of local and community blood centers.
American Society of Hematology
http://www.hematology.org
Association of clinicians and scientists studying disorders that affect the blood, bone marrow, and the immunologic, hemostatic, and vascular systems.
National Marrow Donor Program
http://www.marrow.org
A non-profit organization that facilitates unrelated marrow and blood stem-cell transplants for patients who do not have matching donors in their families.
New York Blood Center
http://www.nybc.org
Located in New York City, this is the nation's largest independent blood distribution and services organization.
Florida Blood Services
http://www.floridabloodservices.net/home.asp
Blood donation center in Tampa, Florida.
Blood Centers of the Pacific
http://www.bloodcenters.org
Blood donation center in northern California.
Stanford Blood Center
http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu
Blood donation center in Palo Alto, California.
Puget Sound Blood Center
http://www.psbc.org
Blood donation center in the Seattle area.
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DiscoveryHealth.com: Kill or Cure
http://health.discovery.com/convergence/killorcure/timeline/korctimeline7.html
Comprehensive history of medicine timeline.
Antiqua Medicina: From Homer to Vesalius
http://hsc.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/anthome.html
A history of the ancient practice of medicine and physicians.
Karolinska Institutet
http://www.mic.ki.se/HistGen.html
Site of links on the general history of biomedicine and medical technology.
Galen: A biographical sketch
http://courses.ed.asu.edu/horan/ced522readings/galen/dreams/galenbio.htm
Essay covering the birth, education, writings, personality, and influence of the Greek physician Galen.
Karl Landsteiner Bio
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1930/landsteiner-bio.html
The Nobel Foundation's biography of the doctor who discovered blood groups.
William Harvey: On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals, 1628
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1628harvey-blood.html
Harvey's treatise that first described the circulation of blood.
History of Apheresis
http://hemapheresis.com/historyearly.htm
History of the medical process involving the separation of whole blood for therapeutic apheresis procedures.
WWII Combat Medic
http://home.att.net/~steinert/
Web site devoted to the combat medics and medicine of WWII.
Armed Services Blood Program Office
http://www.tricare.osd.mil/asbpo/bldhist.html
History of the military's use of therapeutic blood techniques.
Photos: Blood cells (top), reprinted from BloodLine®, with permission from Carden Jennings Publishing Co., Ltd. ; blood storage refrigerator (center), courtesy of the National Library of Medicine; and bloodletting instruments (bottom), from RED GOLD: THE EPIC STORY OF BLOOD.
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