{"product_id":"the-bleeding-disease-stephen-pemberton-9781421401157","title":"The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the 1970s, a therapeutic revolution, decades in the making, had transformed hemophilia from an obscure hereditary malady into a manageable bleeding disorder. Yet the glory of this achievement was short lived. The same treatments that delivered some normalcy to the lives of persons with hemophilia brought unexpectedly fatal results in the 1980s when people with the disease contracted HIV-AIDS and Hepatitis C in staggering numbers. \u003ci\u003eThe Bleeding Disease\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the promising and perilous history of American medical and social efforts to manage hemophilia in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is both a success story and a cautionary tale, one built on the emergence in the 1950s and 1960s of an advocacy movement that sought normalcy--rather than social isolation and hyper-protectiveness--for the boys and men who suffered from the severest form of the disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Pemberton evokes the allure of normalcy as well as the human costs of medical and technological progress in efforts to manage hemophilia. He explains how physicians, advocacy groups, the blood industry, and the government joined patients and families in their unrelenting pursuit of normalcy--and the devastating, unintended consequences that pursuit entailed. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Pemberton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421401150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421401157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2011 pg. 245","brand":"Stephen Pemberton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449573683455,"sku":"9781421401157","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a818451c-e383-4ffe-a770-0cd5e9b38b0b.jpg?v=1777263990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bleeding-disease-stephen-pemberton-9781421401157","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}