Blood Matters

Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : HMH
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780547427546

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A National Book Award winner’s personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing. Several years after Masha Gessen’s mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to high rates of ovarian and breast cancer. Her doctors gave her narrow options: surgical removal of her breasts and ovaries or living with the likelihood of one day developing cancer. As Gessen wrestled with her own health decisions, she sought more information about the implications of genetic testing from a variety of sources—ranging from others faced with her same dilemma to medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. With concerns both practical and philosophical, personal and societal, her inquiry led her across the globe, with stops in Israel, Russia, Austria, and the United States. Weaving her own story into her journalistic research, Gessen offers insight into how knowledge that was once unimaginable now shapes our lives. Blood Matters explores not only the decisions we must make in our physical and emotional health, but also the ethical choices we face when choosing spouses or having children. “Valuable reading to almost anyone facing a huge health decision, not only for the literary commiseration it offers, but also for the inspired example of medical sleuthing on one’s own behalf that it provides. Gessen keeps an inflammatory topic at room temperature, writing elegantly and without self pity.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0156033313

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Describes how advanced genetic testing led to the author's discovery that she was predisposed to ovarian and breast cancer and examines how genetic data shapes the decisions people make and their personal sense of identity.

Author : Bonnie Lander,Bonnie Lander Johnson,Eleanor Decamp
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812250213

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Blood Matters by Bonnie Lander,Bonnie Lander Johnson,Eleanor Decamp Pdf

Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry in medieval and early modern Europe and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation.

Author : Erik March Zissu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317795117

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Blood Matters by Erik March Zissu Pdf

This study explores how the five tribes of Oklahoma - Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles - strove to achieve political unity within their tribes during the first decades of the 20th century by forging a new sense of peoplehood around the idea of blood.

Author : Donna Marie Bonet
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625165503

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Blood Matters by Donna Marie Bonet Pdf

One day she has a family, the next day she doesn't. When a distant relative invites Fame to England for a visit and she innocently accepts, life really gets interesting. From Scotland Yard, to one of the most sacred places on earth, to one of the darkest places on earth, Fame is experiencing the adventure of her life. Little does Fame know that she is really on a quest to find the truth and her destiny. As her fate hangs in the balance, she discovers secrets from the 1850s about her own family and the identity of Jack the Ripper, then ... well, you have to read Blood Matters to find out. Combine the original Dark Shadows with Twilight and Sherlock Holmes, season with a little bit of Ghost Hunters, and you get Blood Matters.

Author : Maria Lima
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439175438

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Matters of the Blood by Maria Lima Pdf

If you thought your family was strange... Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the clan moved (lock, stock, and grimoire) to Canada. But family duty means still having to keep an eye on cousin Marty -- a genetic aberration who turned out 100% human, poor guy. And recently Keira's been having violent dreams -- or are they visions? -- featuring Marty as the victim of a vicious murder. Something sinister seems to be brewing in little Rio Seco. Can Keira get to the bottom of it all while avoiding entanglement with her former lover, Sheriff Carlton Larson? And what does she plan to do about the irresistible and enigmatic Adam Walker? When this old friend shows up as the new owner of a local ranc and wants to get better acquainted, Keira is more than happy to be welcoming...until she suspects that Adam could be intimately connected to the dangerous doings in Rio Seco.

Author : Matthew Klugman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1740970667

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Author : Aviva Bel'Harold
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770530744

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Blood Matters by Aviva Bel'Harold Pdf

Grief changes people. Brittany used to be a normal teen. She ate like one. She slept like one. And she even had typical mood swings. But finding her best friend dead changed everything. Grief could explain her loss of apetite and her lack of sleep. It might explain why she sees her dead friend everywhere she goes. But it doesn't explain why everyone she touches develops bruises or why she's attracted to the smell of blood. And what's with the urges to eat her new boyfriend?

Author : Fulton Roberts
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781483282831

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An Introduction to Human Blood Groups by Fulton Roberts Pdf

An Introduction to Human Blood Groups provides an introduction to human blood groups. The book begins with a chapter on elementary serological matters. This is followed by separate chapters on the Rhesus factor, hemolytic disease of the newborn, Rhesus antibodies, the Rh complex, blood-group nomenclature and notation, and the MNS system. Subsequent chapters deal with the ABO system, the P and Lewis blood-group systems, the relationship of blood groups to disease, and human blood-group genetics. The final chapter considers whether blood groups can contribute to the study of mankind.

Author : Christopher H. Johnson,Bernhard Jussen,David Warren Sabean,Simon Teuscher
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857457509

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Blood and Kinship by Christopher H. Johnson,Bernhard Jussen,David Warren Sabean,Simon Teuscher Pdf

The word "blood" awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily substances that unite them, and the contributors to this volume develop those questions in new directions. Taking a radically historical perspective that complements traditional cultural analyses, they demonstrate how blood and kinship have constantly been reconfigured in European culture. This volume challenges the idea that blood can be understood as a stable entity, and shows how concepts of blood and kinship moved in both parallel and divergent directions over the course of European history.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 924154855X

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Blood Donor Counselling by World Health Organization Pdf

Individuals who donate their blood provide a unique and precious gift in an act of human solidarity. In order to donate blood, prospective donors should be in good health and free from any infections that can be transmitted through transfusion. Most blood donors perceive themselves to be healthy, but some are unsuitable to donate blood due to the potential risk of compromising or worsening their own health or the risk of transmission of infections to patients. Blood transfusion services (BTS) have a duty of care towards blood donors as well as to the recipients of transfusion. This duty of care extends to prospective donors who are deferred from donation--whether on a temporary or permanent basis--as well as those who donate blood and are subsequently found to have unusual or abnormal test results. BTS have a responsibility to confirm test results and provide information, counseling and support to enable these individuals to understand and respond to unexpected information about their health or risk status. Counseling is part of the spectrum of care that a BTS should be able to provide to blood donors--including referral to medical practitioners or specialist clinical services. Pre-donation counseling was recognized as one element of the strategy to reduce and, if possible, prevent the donation of blood by individuals who might be at risk for HIV and other TTI including hepatitis B and C viruses as well as to inform the donor of the donation process and testing of blood for HIV. Post-donation counseling was acknowledged to be a necessary element of donor management as an adjunct to informing donors of unusual or abnormal test results. Blood donor counseling by trained specialist staff is now considered to be a key component of the blood system in most countries with a well-developed blood transfusion service. It may be required at a number of stages in the blood donation process or following blood screening and should be available at any point at which the BTS has an interface with donors. In many countries, however, blood donor counseling is not yet available in a structured way. Blood Donor Counselling: Implementation Guidelines has therefore been developed to provide guidance to blood transfusion services that have not yet established donor counseling programs.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee to Study HIV Transmission Through Blood and Blood Products
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309053297

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HIV and the Blood Supply by Institute of Medicine,Committee to Study HIV Transmission Through Blood and Blood Products Pdf

During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply. Because little reliable information existed at the time AIDS first began showing up in hemophiliacs and in others who had received transfusions, experts disagreed about whether blood and blood products could transmit the disease. During this period of great uncertainty, decision-making regarding the blood supply became increasingly difficult and fraught with risk. This volume provides a balanced inquiry into the blood safety controversy, which involves private sexual practices, personal tragedy for the victims of HIV/AIDS, and public confidence in America's blood services system. The book focuses on critical decisions as information about the danger to the blood supply emerged. The committee draws conclusions about what was doneâ€"and recommends what should be done to produce better outcomes in the face of future threats to blood safety. The committee frames its analysis around four critical area: Product treatmentâ€"Could effective methods for inactivating HIV in blood have been introduced sooner? Donor screening and referralâ€"including a review of screening to exlude high-risk individuals. Regulations and recall of contaminated bloodâ€"analyzing decisions by federal agencies and the private sector. Risk communicationâ€"examining whether infections could have been averted by better communication of the risks.

Author : Afua Cooper
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26T00:00:00Z
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781773632568

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Black Matters by Afua Cooper Pdf

Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates Raussert’s photos into poetry, painting a profound image of what disembodied historical facts might look like when they are embodied in contemporary characters. This visual and textual conversation honours the multiple layers of Blackness in the African diaspora around North America and Europe. The result is a work that amplifies black beauty and offers audible resistance.

Author : Bonnie Lander Johnson,Eleanor Decamp
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812295092

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Blood Matters by Bonnie Lander Johnson,Eleanor Decamp Pdf

In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life, a medical cure, a serum appearing under the guise of all other bodily secretions, and—after William Harvey's discovery of its circulation—the cause of one of the greatest medical controversies of the premodern period. Figurative uses of "blood" are even more difficult to pin down. The term appeared in almost every sphere of life and thought, running through political, theological, and familial discourses. Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation. Theatrical and medical practice are found to converge in their approaches to the regulation of blood as a source of identity and truth; medieval civic life intersects with seventeenth-century science and philosophy; the concepts of class, race, gender, and sexuality find in the language of blood as many mechanisms for differentiation as for homogeneity; and fields as disparate as pedagogical theory, alchemy, phlebotomy, wet-nursing, and wine production emerge as historically and intellectually analogous. The volume's essays are organized within categories derived from medieval and early modern understanding of blood behaviors—Circulation, Wounds, Corruption, Proof, and Signs and Substances—thereby providing the terms through which interdisciplinary and cross-period conversations can take place. Contributors: Helen Barr, Katharine Craik, Lesel Dawson, Eleanor Decamp, Frances E. Dolan, Elisabeth Dutton, Margaret Healy, Dolly Jørgensen, Helen King, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Joe Moshenska, Tara Nummedal, Patricia Parker, Ben Parsons, Heather Webb, Gabriella Zuccolin.

Author : Sarah N. Harvey,Robin Stevenson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459812956

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Blood on the Beach by Sarah N. Harvey,Robin Stevenson Pdf

Eight teens are dropped off on a remote west-coast island for a week-long treatment program called INTRO (Into Nature to Renew Ourselves). The story is told by two of them: Alice, whose police-officer mother believes Alice might have a substance-abuse problem, and Caleb, who assaulted his abusive stepfather. They are joined by six other miscreants and three staff: a psychologist, a social worker and an ex-cop. On the first night, one of the girls disappears from her cabin. There is a panicked search of the island, but she is nowhere to be found. The adults seem oddly ineffectual in dealing with the crisis—and then the ex-cop gets sick and dies. The radio has been sabotaged, and there is no way to call for help. When the social worker also becomes ill, the kids decide to take matters into their own hands and track down the killer.