The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / / Stephen Pemberton
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| Autore: |
Pemberton Stephen Gregory
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| Titolo: |
The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / / Stephen Pemberton
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| Pubblicazione: | 2011 |
| Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.1/572 |
| Soggetto topico: | Hemophilia - Complications |
| Hemophilia - United States - History | |
| Classificazione: | MED039000 |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Ironically, transforming the hope of a normal life into a purchasable commodity for people with bleeding disorders made it all too easy to ignore the potential dangers of delivering greater health and autonomy to hemophilic boys and men. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The bleeding disease |
| ISBN: | 9781421404424 |
| 1421404427 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910963517103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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