Securing a Safer Blood Supply

 This eye-opening and essential debate weighs two sharply diverging perspectives from Ross D. Eckert and Edward Wallace on how America's blood supply system can be made safer, tackling urgent issues like AIDS and hepatitis transmission through transfusions, the future of volunteer blood donor pools versus commercial blood services, the role of the American Red Cross and American Blood Commission, and the health policy choices that will define national blood services and healthcare management systems for years to come. 

In response to renewed concerns over illnesses related to blood transfusions, this volume provides two diverging perspectives on how a high-quality blood supply can best be achieved and maintained.

Penelope Eckert is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Learning in Menlo Park, CA. She has also taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of "Jocks and Burnouts" (1989), editor of "New Ways of Analyzing Sound Change" (1991), and co-editor of "The Cornell Lectures: Women in the Linguistic Profession" (1990).