The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but like most new medical practices, transfusion needed to be adapted to the needs of sub-Saharan Africa, for which there was no analogous treatment in traditional African medicine.This otherwise beneficent medical procedure also created a royal road for microorganisms, and thus played a central part in the emergence of human immune viruses in epidemic…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8214-4453-5
- EAN: 9780821444535
- Produktnummer: 20435180
- Verlag: Ohio University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'528 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
William H. Schneider is Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is author of Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France and An Empire for the Masses: The French Popular Image of Africa, 1870-1900; and editor of Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War.
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