Oral history interview with Barbara Chang, 1990.

Scope and Contents

Creation of educational manual for families of people with hemophilia; difference between "pharmaceutical company" and "biologicals company"; network of families providers, and so forth; international similarities and differences in hemophilia care; discovery of heat treatment of blood products to destroy HIV virus; education of school personnel regarding hemophilia; changes in blood products for hemophilia treatment over time; clinical trials of recombinant Factor VIII; third-party reimbursement for blood products; service for direct delivery of blood products from manufacturer to patient; patient/family education as part of this home-care service; plasma donors and donor centers; beginnings of Hyland company - Dr. Clarence Hyland, use of albumin to treat hemophilia during World War II, early use of Factors VIII and IX; Judith Graham Poole’s discovery of cryoprecipitate; pharmaceutical/biotechnological advances in hemophilia care

Subjects

• AIDS (Disease)--United States--History.
• Caregivers.
• Chang, Barbara--Interviews.
• Health services administrators--Interviews.
• Hemophilia--Political aspects.
• Hemophilia--Social aspects.
• Hemophilia--United States--History.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (document genres)
• Resnik, Susan, 1940- interviewer.

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