The American Blood Supply: Issues and Policies of Blood Donation

by Alvin W. Drake, Harvey M. Sapolsky, Stanley Finkelstein

Most of us hear only bad things about the blood supply in the United States. We are told that the supply is chronically low, that most people won't donate, that we depend too much on paid and possibly unsafe donors, and that many other countries have more generous people and better blood supplies. The American Blood Supply examines these and other claims and, after a realistic consideration of the facts, its conclusions are "short on scandal and long...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262040700
• ISBN13: 9780262040709
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 161 Pages