Blood Justice: Courts, Conflict, and Compensation in Japan, France, and the United States

In the mid-1980s, many blood transfusion recipients and close to half of Japanese, American, and French hemophiliacs realized that they had been infected with HIV-contaminated blood. In this article I argue that the legal conflicts over HIV-tainted blood in those three nations defy conventional comp...

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Published in:Law & society review 2000-01, Vol.34 (3), p.651-701
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
AIDS
Blood
Blood Banking - methods
Blood banks
Blood Banks - ethics
Blood Banks - history
Blood Banks - legislation & jurisprudence
Blood Banks - standards
Blood Diseases
Blood donation
Blood plasma
Blood transfusion
Blood transfusions
Compensation
Conflict
Courts
Crosscultural Analysis
Crossnational studies
France
Haemophiliacs
Health Policy
Hemophilia
Hemophilia A - history
History, 20th Century
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Japan
Jurisprudence - history
Law
Legal System
Litigation
Medical treatment
Plaintiffs
Public health
Sociology
Sociology of law and criminology
Sociology of law and justice
U.S.A
United States
United States of America
Workforce
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
AIDS
Blood
Blood Banking - methods
Blood banks
Blood Banks - ethics
Blood Banks - history
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Blood Banks - standards
Blood Diseases
Blood donation
Blood plasma
Blood transfusion
Blood transfusions
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Conflict
Courts
Crosscultural Analysis
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France
Haemophiliacs
Health Policy
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Hemophilia A - history
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HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Japan
Jurisprudence - history
Law
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Medical treatment
Plaintiffs
Public health
Sociology
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Sociology of law and justice
U.S.A
United States
United States of America
Workforce
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