Safe Blood: Purifying the Nation's Blood Supply in the Age of AIDS - Hardcover

Feldschuh, Joseph; Weber, Doron; Dschuh, Joseph M.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0029100658 ISBN 13: 9780029100653

Publisher: The Free Press, 1990

Synopsis

Thousands of hemophiliac children have contracted hepatitis and aids from transfusion with infected blood. Ninety-five percent of all Americans will need transfusions at some point in their lives; yet it has taken the terrifying emergence of AIDS to alert an unsuspecting public to the actual risks involved. Dr. Feldschuh documents the inadequacies and shocking oversights of the blood-bank system, elucidating the risks of present practices and suggesting specific alternatives, including the now feasible storing of one's own blood, "pedigreed" donors, and mono-donor transfusion.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Free Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0029100658
• ISBN 13: 9780029100653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240