The History of Blood Transfusion in by William H. Schneider PAPERBACK

The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan AfricaAuthor(s): William H. Schneider\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821420379, 978-0821420379\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n 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 form. As with more developed health care systems, blood transfusion practices in sub-Saharan Africa wer.