Blood feuds : AIDS, blood, and the politics of medical disaster

The Resource Blood feuds : AIDS, blood, and the politics of medical disaster
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Blood feuds : AIDS, blood, and the politics of medical disaster
Title remainder
AIDS, blood, and the politics of medical disaster
Statement of responsibility
edited by Eric A. Feldman, Ronald Bayer
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Annotation
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
362.1/969792
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
RA644.A25
LC item number
B583 1999eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
  • 1999 E-687
  • WC 503.3
NLM item number
B6545 1999
Summary expansion
In the mid-1980s public health officials in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia discovered that almost half of the hemophiliac population, as well as tens of thousands of blood transfusion recipients, had been infected with HIV-tainted blood. This book provides a comparativeperspective on the political, legal, and social struggles that emerged in response to the HIV contamination of the blood supply of the industrialized world. It describes how eight nations responded to the first signs that AIDS might be transmitted through blood, how early efforts to secure the bloodsupply faltered, and what measures were ultimately implemented to resolve the contamination. The authors detail the remarkable mobilization of hemophiliacs who challenged the state, the medical establishment, and their own caregivers to seek recompense and justice. In the end, the bloodestablishments in almost all the advanced industrial nations were shaken. In Canada, the Red Cross was forced to withdraw from blood collection and distribution. In Japan, pharmaceutical firms that manufactured clotting factor agreed to massive compensation -- $500,000 per hemophiliac infected. InFrance, blood officials went to prison. Even in Denmark, where the number of infected hemophiliacs was relatively small, the struggle and litigation surrounding blood has resulted in the most protracted legal and administrative conflict in modern Danish history. Blood Feuds brings together chapterson the experiences of the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Italy, and Australia with four comparative essays that shed light on the cultural, institutional, and economic dimensions of the HIV/blood disaster
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