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

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Main Author: Pemberton, Stephen Gregory
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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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.