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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.
The UK has played a pivotal role in the development of the New
Public Management (NPM). This book offers an original,
comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the
new public management in the UK and situates these lessons in a
broader comparative perspective.Its chapters consider: competing
typologies of the New Public Management; issues of professionalism
within NPM; debates on social exclusion and equity; the role of
different research approaches in evaluating NPM; the evolving
nature of NPM and impact of modernization; evaluations of the NPM
in mainland Europe, North America, Africa and the Developing World,
Australia, and Pacific-Asia. Leading authorities from around the
world present evaluations of current thinking in NPM and highlight
the challenges which will shape future development and research
approaches. This work presents a constructive overview of the
nature and impact of the NPM and offers important lessons for
public management across the world.
The UK has played a pivotal role in the development of the New
Public Management (NPM). This book offers an original,
comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the
new public management in the UK and situates these lessons in a
broader comparative perspective.Its chapters consider: competing
typologies of the New Public Management; issues of professionalism
within NPM; debates on social exclusion and equity; the role of
different research approaches in evaluating NPM; the evolving
nature of NPM and impact of modernization; evaluations of the NPM
in mainland Europe, North America, Africa and the Developing World,
Australia, and Pacific-Asia. Leading authorities from around the
world present evaluations of current thinking in NPM and highlight
the challenges which will shape future development and research
approaches. This work presents a constructive overview of the
nature and impact of the NPM and offers important lessons for
public management across the world.
"Rein in Your Brain" offers a self-help approach to acquiring the
mental and emotional control that can make any equestrian from any
discipline, whether they ride or drive competitively or
recreationally, more effective in reaching his or her goals and
dreams. Dr. Janeane Reagan's user-friendly presentation of how the
human brain (and sometimes the horse brain) works gives the reader
an understanding of what it takes to make changes that impact
performance and enjoyment. Through this understanding, riders and
drivers gain essential tools for improving their mental toughness,
focus, emotional regulation, communication, stress management and,
when needed, recovery from setbacks and from physical or emotional
trauma. Each chapter helps the reader make these tools his or her
own.
If we are to understand Marx's thought, argues French
philosopher Michel Henry, we must cast aside Marxism. In his
original and richly detailed study of Marx's philosophy, Henry
emphasizes the importance of approaching Marx's writings directly,
rather than through the intermediary of subsequent interpretations,
which often have been politically motivated. In contrast to the
usual depiction of Marxian thought as an economically oriented
analysis of social reality, Henry contends that in Marx's theory
philosophy is primary. Therefore, Marx's writings must properly be
viewed--and judged--within the context of the modern philosophical
tradition. Marx's basic concern, Henry demonstrates, is with the
nature of the human being, the real conditions of human
individuality. Central to Henry's reading of Marx, and elaborated
here with unprecedented thoroughness, is the theory of praxis, a
conception of the individual not as a thinking being, in the
Cartesian tradition, but as a laboring being, a producer and
consumer situated in a concrete social world. This novel and
provocative contribution to the current debate about the nature and
meaning of Marx's thought is essential for students of philosophy,
Marxism, and political theory. Kathleen McLaughlin's excellent
translation of Henry's abridgement of his two-volume work preserves
the power and freshness of the French original.
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