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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464152903321

Autore

Pemberton Stephen Gregory

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-4214-0442-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Disciplina

616.1/572

Soggetti

Hemophilia - Complications

Hemophilia - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-363) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.