The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / Stephen Pemberton. [electronic resource]
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- 9781421404424 (e-book)
- 616.1/572 22
- RC642 .P46 2011
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Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-363) and index.
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.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.