The bleeding disease : : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / / Stephen Pemberton.

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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2011.
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (398 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of 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.