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- ISBN
- 9781982171964
- Subject Area
- True Crime, Business & Economics, Medical, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Blood Money : the Story of Life, Death, and Profit inside America's Blood Industry
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Subject
- Clinical Medicine, White Collar Crime, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 13.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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A "haunting" (Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can't Even ) and deeply personal investigation of an underground for-profit medical industry and the American underclass it drains for blood and profit. Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin knew she'd found a treatment that worked on her rare autoimmune disorder. She had no idea it had been drawn from the veins of America's most vulnerable. So begins McLaughlin's ten-year investigation researching and reporting on the $20-billion-a year business she found at the other end of her medication, revealing an industry that targets America's most economically vulnerable for immense profit. Assigned to work in China, McLaughlin hesitated to utilize that country's scandal-plagued plasma supply--outbreaks throughout the 1990s and early 2000s struck thousands with blood-borne diseases as impoverished areas of the country were milked for blood with reckless abandon. Instead, McLaughlin becomes her own runner, hiding American plasma in her luggage during trips from the United States to China. She finishes the job, but never could get the plasma story out of her head. Suspicions become certainties when a source from the past, a visiting Chinese researcher, warns McLaughlin of troubling echoes between America's domestic plasma supply chain and the one she'd seen spin out into chaos in China. Blood Money shares McLaughlin's decade-long mission to learn the full story of where her medicine comes from. She travels the United States in search of the truth about human blood plasma and learns that twenty million Americans each year sell their plasma for profit--a human-derived commodity extracted inside our borders to be processed and packaged for retail across the globe. She investigates the thin evidence pharmaceutical companies have used to push plasma as a wonder drug for everything from COVID-19 to wrinkled skin. And she unearths an American economic crisis hidden in plain sight: single mothers, college students, laid-off Rust Belt auto workers, and a booming blood market at America's southern border, where collection agencies target Mexican citizens willing to cross over and sell their plasma for substandard pay. McLaughlin's findings push her to ask difficult questions about her own complicity in this wheel of exploitation, as both a patient in need and a customer who stands to benefit from the suffering of others. Blood Money weaves together McLaughlin's personal battle to overcome illness as a working American with an electrifying exposé of capitalism run amok in a searing portrait that shows what happens when big business is allowed to feed unchecked on those least empowered to fight back.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Atria Books
ISBN-10
1982171960
ISBN-13
9781982171964
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14057251533
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Blood Money : the Story of Life, Death, and Profit inside America's Blood Industry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Clinical Medicine, White Collar Crime, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
True Crime, Business & Economics, Medical, Social Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2022-034219
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Rm172.M39 2023
Reviews
"Vampires walk among us, and Kathleen McLaughlin is unafraid to shine a torchlight on their sins. She illuminates the ways for-profit blood plasma firms feed on the most vulnerable--the poor, the forgotten, the oppressed--in the name of big medicine, big tech, and big business, squeezing literal blood money out of those who have already given too much."." --Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell, "From AIDS-ravaged villages in China to mall plasma centers in the United States, Kathleen McLaughlin traces the veins of a worldwide blood industry that draws from the desperate and needy to create life-saving products. This sharp and compassionate book will make you see globalization, and healthcare, in a whole new light." --James Palmer, author of The Death of Mao and The Bloody White Baron, "Blending memoir and reportage, journalist McLaughlin debuts with a disturbing look at the predatory nature of the blood plasma industry. A captivating and anguished exposé." --Publishers Weekly, "A disturbing, painful story that smoothly combines the personal and the universal." -- Kirkus (starred review)
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