Blood Feuds
AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 June 1999
- ISBN 9780195131604
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 155x234x29 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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 industrialized worlds blood supply. It 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.
MoreLong description:
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 industrialized worlds blood supply. It describes how eight nations responded to the first signs that AIDS might be transmitted through blood, and how they falteringly arrived at and finally implemented measures to secure the blood supply. The authors detail the remarkable saga of the mobilization of haemophiliacs who challenged the state, the medical establishment, and even their own caregivers as they sought recompense and justice. In the end, the blood establishments in almost every advanced industrial nation 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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Part I: National Encounters with Blood and AIDS
Introduction: Understanding the Blood Feuds
Blood and AIDS in America: Science, Politics, and the Making of an Iatrogenic Catastrophe
HIV and Blood in Japan: Transforming Private Conflict into Public Scandal
The Nations Blood: Medicine, Justice, and the State in France
From Trust to Tragedy: HIV / AIDS and the Canadian Blood System
The Never-Ending Story? The Political and Legal Controversies over HIV and the Blood Supply in Denmark
Blood Scandal and AIDS in Germany
Blood, Bureaucracy and Law: Responding to the HIV-Tainted Blood in Italy
HIV-Contaminated Blood and Australian Policy: The Limits of Success
Part II: Comparative Perspectives on the Politics of Medical Disaster
Cultural Perspectives on Blood
The Politics of Blood: Hemophilia Activism in the AIDS Crisis
The Circulation of the Blood: AIDS, Blood and the Economics of Information
Conclusion: The Comparative Politics of Contaminated Blood: From Hesitancy to Scandal
