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

By Joseph Feldschuh and Doron Weber

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029100658
• ISBN13: 9780029100653
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.