The history of blood transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa / William H. Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, William H. (William Howard), 1945-

Series:

Perspectives on Global Health

Perspectives on global health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Epidemiology.

AIDS (Disease).

Blood banks--Risk management--Africa.

Blood banks.

Blood--Transfusion--Africa--History.

Blood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but like most new medical practices, transfusion needed to be adapted to the needs of sub-Saharan Africa, for which there was no analogous treatment in traditional African medicine. This otherwise beneficent medical procedure also created a "royal road" for microorganisms, and thus played a central

Contents:

Blood transfusion before the Second World War

Blood transfusion from 1945 to independence

Blood transfusion in independent African countries

Who got blood? : indications for the use of blood transfusion, 1945/2000

Who gave blood?

Blood transfusion and health risk before and after the AIDS epidemic

African blood transfusion in the context of global health.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 18, 2013).

ISBN:

9780821444535

0821444530

OCLC:

858861550