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The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress  Cover Image Book Book

The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / Stephen Pemberton.

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  • ISBN: 9781421401157 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1421401150 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xviii, 377 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-363) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Hemophilia > United States > History.
Hemophilia A > history > United States.
Hemophilia A > therapy > United States.
Blood Transfusion > United States.
HIV Infections > transmission > United States.
History, 20th Century > United States.
Liver Transplantation > trends > United States.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library RC 642 .P46 2011 30542461 General Collection Available -


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