Recommended Books - Blood, Blood Products, Transfusions

Blood Trail
by Michael Sullivan, Michael Galster

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Bad Blood: Crisis in the American Red Cross

by Judith Reitman

Synopsis: For more than 100 years, the American Red Cross has stood as a towering monument to public health. But for over a decade now, the organization known for its "gift of life" has been responsible for exposing millions of innocent people to a blood supply contaminated by HIV, syphillis, hepatitis, and other highly infectious diseases. Bad Blood recounts the Red Cross's fall from mismanagement, teling how a $1.7 billion enterprise shaped by personal ambitions has foundered on the shoals of its own greed. photos.

This is an EXCELLENT Book.

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The Hot Zone--A Terrifying True Story
by Richard Preston

Paperback

The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything Hollywood could think of, because it's all true

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I recommend this book and/or the movie to Everyone, Whether your are infected with a virus or not. It is EXCELLENT! Touches strongly on the Hepatitis B virus.

And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

 

And The Band Played On (Movie on DVD)

 

A superior, made-for-cable film, this Home Box Office adaptation of Randy Shilts's chronicle detailing the emergence of AIDS in America and the fight against bureaucracy and society for a cure is a taut, outrageous, and affecting true-life drama. Matthew Modine is featured as a doctor with the Centers for Disease Control at the time when the first reports of a disease plaguing the gay community were heard. Modine and his colleagues embark on an investigation that resembles a compelling detective story as they try to track the source of the disease and discover a cure. Their efforts are thwarted by an ambivalent government and a turf war between French physicians and a celebrated American researcher (Alan Alda) who seems to place his own glory above the dead and the dying. Featuring heartfelt performances from a stellar cast including Richard Gere, Glenne Headly, Anjelica Huston, Steve Martin, Ian McKellen, Saul Rubinek, and Lily Tomlin, this impassioned film stands as an impressive and important document of one of the darkest eras in modern human history, and a tribute to the spirit of those who sought to save lives. --Robert Lane

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Blood and Blood Products: Safety and Risk
by Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability, Frederick Manning

Paperback

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Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services

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Blood Banking in a Changing Environment
by Dennis Smith, W. John Judd (Editor)

Hardcover

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The Blood Conspiracy: How to Avoid Getting AIDS and Hepatitis in a Transfusion

by Joleen Swain Ottosen

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Hepatitis: A Virus Transmission by Blood Products (Journal: Vox Sanguinis Ser.; Vol. 67, Supplement1, 1994)

by C Prowse (Editor)

Paperback Vol 67 (June 1994)

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