Blood feuds

PART I: NATIONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH BLOOD AND AIDS 1. Introduction: Understanding the Blood Feuds 2. Blood and AIDS in America: Science, Politics, and the Making of an Iatrogenic Catastrophe 3. HIV and Blood in Japan: Transforming Private Conflict into Public Scandal 4. The Nations Blood: Medicine, Justice, and the State in France 5. From Trust to Tragedy: HIV / AIDS and the Canadian Blood System 6. The Never-Ending Story? The Political and Legal Controversies over HIV and the Blood Supply in Denmark 7. Blood Scandal and AIDS in Germany 8. Blood, Bureaucracy and Law: Responding to the HIV-Tainted Blood in Italy 9. HIV-Contaminated Blood and Australian Policy: The Limits of Success PART II: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICS OF MEDICAL DISASTER 10. Cultural Perspectives on Blood 11. The Politics of Blood: Hemophilia Activism in the AIDS Crisis 12. The Circulation of the Blood: AIDS, Blood and the Economics of Information 13. Conclusion: The Comparative Politics of Contaminated Blood: From Hesitancy to Scandal

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