Safe Blood: Purifying the Nations Blood Supply in the Age of AIDS

by Joseph Feldschuh

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684863863
Publisher:	Free Press
Publication date:	10/01/1998
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Joseph Feldschuh is the author of Safe Blood, a Simon & Schuster book.