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

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

By the 1970s, a therapeutic revolution, decades in the making, had transformed hemophilia from an obscure hereditary malady into a manageable bleeding disorder. The glory of this achievement was short lived as the same treatments that delivered some normalcy to the lives of persons with hemophilia b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pemberton, Stephen Gregory
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hemophilia > United States > History.
Blood > Transfusion.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Blood > Transfusion
Hemophilia
Hämophilie.
Bluttransfusion.
Lebertransplantation.
United States
USA.
History
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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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