The bleeding disease
Subtitle: hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress
By: Stephen Pemberton
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9781421401157
Subjects: Hemophilia A; History; Blood Transfusion; Hemophilia; Transmission; Trends; Therapy; Liver Transplantation; HIV Infections; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-363) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : hemophilia as pathology of progress; title: The emergence of the hemophilia concept; title: The scientist, the bleeder, and the laboratory; title: Vital factors in the making of a masculine world; title: Normality within limits; title: The hemophiliac's passport to freedom; title: Autonomy and other imperatives of the health consumer; title: The mismanagement of hemophilia and AIDS; title: Conclusion : the governance of clinical progress in a global age.