Blood feuds : AIDS, blood, and the politics of medical disaster / edited by Eric A. Feldman, Ronald Bayer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feldman, Eric A.

Bayer, Ronald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease)--Transmission.

Blood--Collection and preservation--Government policy.

Blood.

Blood--Transfusion--Safety measures.

Blood banks--Government policy.

Blood banks.

Physical Description:

xiii, 375 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

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

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E

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G

H

I

J

K

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M

N

P

R

S

T

U

V

W.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-83325-4

9786610833252

0-19-975973-1

OCLC:

922969770