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The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / Stephen Pemberton.
- Pemberton, Stephen Gregory.
- Date
- 2011
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Physical description
xviii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-363) and index.
Contents
Introduction : hemophilia as pathology of progress -- The emergence of the hemophilia concept -- The scientist, the bleeder, and the laboratory -- Vital factors in the making of a masculine world -- Normality within limits -- The hemophiliac's passport to freedom -- Autonomy and other imperatives of the health consumer -- The mismanagement of hemophilia and AIDS -- Conclusion : the governance of clinical progress in a global age.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineGYV.6.AA9Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781421401157
- 1421401150