Blood Feuds : AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster.
Title:
Blood Feuds : AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster.
Author:
Feldman, Eric.
ISBN:
9780199759736
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (390 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Understanding the Blood Feuds -- Part I: National Encounters with Blood and AIDS -- 1. Blood and AIDS in America: Science, Politics, and the Making of an latrogenic Catastrophe -- 2. HIV and Blood in Japan: Transforming Private Conflict into Public Scandal -- 3. The Nation's Blood: Medicine, Justice, and the State in France -- 4. From Trust to Tragedy: HIV/AIDS and the Canadian Blood System -- 5. The Never-Ending Story? The Political and Legal Controversies over HIV and the Blood Supply in Denmark -- 6. Blood "Scandal" and AIDS in Germany -- 7. Blood, Bureaucracy and Law: Responding to HIV-Tainted Blood in Italy -- 8. HIV-Contaminated Blood and Australian Policy: The Limits of Success -- Part II: Comparative Perspectives on the Politics of Medical Diaster -- 9. Cultural Perspectives on Blood -- 10. The Politics of Blood: Hemophila Activism in the AIDS Crisis -- 11. The Circulation of Blood: AIDS, Blood, and the Economics of Information -- Conclusion: The Comparative Politics of Contaminated Blood: From Hesitancy to Scandal -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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