Blood Feuds - AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster (Paperback, New edition)

In the mid-1980s public health officials in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia discovered that almost half of the haemophiliac population, as well as tens of thousands of blood transfusion recipients, had been infected with HIV-tainted blood. This book provides a comparative perspective on the political, legal, and social struggles that emerged in response to the HIV contamination of the blood supply of the industrialized world. It describes how eight nations responded to the first signs that AIDS might be transmitted through blood, how early efforts to secure the blood supply faltered, and what measures were ultimately implemented to resolve the contamination. The authors detail the remarkable mobilization of haemophiliacs who challenged the state, the medical establishment, and their own caregivers to seek recompense and justice. In the end, the blood establishments in almost all the advanced industrial nations were shaken. In Canada, the Red Cross was forced to withdraw from blood collection and distribution. In Japan, pharmaceutical firms that manufactured clotting factor agreed to massive compensation -- $500,000 per haemophiliac infected. In France, blood officials went to prison. Even in Denmark, where the number of infected haemophiliacs was relatively small, the struggle and litigation surrounding blood has resulted in the most protracted legal and administrative conflict in modern Danish history. Blood Feuds brings together chapters on the experiences of the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Italy, and Australia with four comparative essays that shed light on the cultural, institutional, and economic dimensions of the HIV/blood disaster.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1999
First published:	March 1999
Editors:	Eric Feldman (Associate Director, Institute for Law and Society) • Ronald Bayer (Professor of Sociomedical Sciences)
Dimensions:	234 x 154 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	390
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513160-4
Categories:	Books > Law > Other areas of law > Law as it applies to other professions Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > HIV / AIDS Books > History > American history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	0-19-513160-6
Barcode:	9780195131604

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