Blood and AIDS in America: science, politics, and the making of an iatrogenic catastrophe / Ronald Bayer -- HIV and blood in Japan: Transforming private conflict into public scandal / Eric A. Feldman -- The nation's blood: medicine, justice, and the state in France / Monia Steffen -- From trust to tragedy: HIV/AIDS and the Canadian blood system / Norbert Gilmore and Margaret A. Somerville -- The never-ending story? The political and legal controversies over HIV and the blood supply in Demark / Erik Albæk -- Blood "scandal" and AIDS in Germany / Sephan Dressler -- Blood, bureaucracy and law: responding to HIV-tainted blood in Italy / Umberto Izzo -- HIV-contaminated blood and Australian policy: the limits of success / John Ballard -- Cultural perspectives on blood / Dorothy Nelkin -- The politics of blood: hemophilia activism in the AIDS crisis / David Kirp -- The circulation of blood: AIDS, blood, and the economics of information / Sherry Glied.