Blood Feuds
AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster
ISBN13: 9780195131604ISBN10: 0195131606
Paperback,
400 pages
Mar 1999,
In Stock
Price:
$39.99 (05)Description
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 industrialized worlds blood supply. It brings together chapters on 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.About the Author(s)
Edited by Eric Feldman, Associate Director, New York University's Institute for Law and Society , and Ronald Bayer, Professor, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
