The Bleeding Disease : Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pemberton, Stephen Gregory
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Liver Transplantation > trends > United States.
History, 20th Century > United States.
HIV Infections > transmission > United States.
Blood Transfusion > United States.
Hemophilia A > therapy > United States.
Hemophilia A > history > United States.
Hemophilia > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : hemophilia as pathology of progress
  • The emergence of the hemophilia concept
  • The scientist, the bleeder, and the laboratory
  • Vital factors in the making of a masculine world
  • Normality within limits
  • The hemophiliac's passport to freedom
  • Autonomy and other imperatives of the health consumer
  • The mismanagement of hemophilia and AIDS
  • Conclusion : the governance of clinical progress in a global age.

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