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Blood Money - The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry
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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 a "vampiric real-life story of modern-day
greed" (Leah Sottile, host of Bundyville). Assigned to work in
China, where the plasma supply had been rocked by numerous
scandals, McLaughlin hid American plasma in her luggage during
trips between the two countries. And when she was warned by a
Chinese researcher of troubling echoes between America's domestic
plasma supply chain and the one she'd seen spin out into chaos in
China, she knew she had to dig deeper. 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. This "captivating and anguished
exposé" (Publishers Weekly) weaves together McLaughlin's personal
battle to overcome illness while also facing her own complicity in
this wheel of exploitation with an electrifying portrait of big
business run amok.
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Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Kathleen McLaughlin
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Dimensions: |
213 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-982171-97-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-982171-97-9 |
Barcode: |
9781982171971 |
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