Stephen Pemberton

The Bleeding Disease

Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ironically, transforming the hope of a normal life into a purchasable commodity for people with bleeding disorders made it all too easy to ignore the potential dangers of delivering greater health and autonomy to hemophilic boys and men.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781421401157
• ISBN-10: 1421401150
• Artikelnr.: 33657483

Autorenporträt

Stephen Pemberton is an associate professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He is coauthor of The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease, also published by Johns Hopkins.