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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 10/01/1998
ISBN: 9780684863863
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.14w x 0.60d