Blood saga : hemophilia, AIDS, and the survival of a community / Susan Resnik.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520920293
- 0520920295
- 0585299870
- 9780585299877
- Hemophilia -- United States -- History
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- MEDICAL -- Health Policy
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General
- MEDICAL -- Diseases
- MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery
- Hemophilia
- United States
- Hemofilie
- AIDS
- Verenigde Staten
- Hemophilia A -- history
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- history
- Community Networks
- Politics
- United States
- Medicine
- Health & Biological Sciences
- Hematologic Diseases
- 362.1/961572/00973 21
- RC642 .R47 1999eb
- 1999 H-081
- WH 11 AA1
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-281) and index.
Resnick describes the, "social, psychological, and economic experience," of the hemophilia community.
Introduction -- The dismal era: because the blood comes from the woman -- The years of hope, 1948-65 -- A research milestone heralds the golden era, 1960-65 -- The hemophilia community enters politics: the late 1960s and early 1970s -- Politics and the blood business in the golden era -- The meanings of the golden era -- The AIDS era begins: the years of confusion and denial, 1980-82 -- The AIDS era, 1982-85: tension mounts, conflicts erupt -- The AIDS era, 1985-88: the hemophilia community rises to the challenge -- "A vote for the status quo," 1988-92 -- Approaching the biotech century: out with the old, in with the new, 1992-98 -- Conclusion: lessons to be learned.
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