Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster

Book Overview

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 comparative perspective 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195131606
• ISBN13: 9780195131604
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"