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Author Pemberton, Stephen Gregory.

Title The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / Stephen Pemberton.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (398 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-363) and index.
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.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
Subject Hemophilia -- Complications.
Hemophilia -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781421401157
9781421404424 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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