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Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry
Maybe someday
25
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
5/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Kathleen McLaughlin
Publisher:
Atria/One Signal Publishers
Date:
February 28, 2023
This book documents Kathleen 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.
What The Reviewers Say
McLaughlin’s distressing assessment of the plasma economy spotlights the value of the substance for patients, individuals in financial need who provide it, and big-business blood-traders who profit handsomely from it..
Illuminating.
If there was any doubt that the country’s wealth gap has grown untenably wide, this book dispels it.
Throughout, [McLaughlin] interweaves shocking revelations about lax regulations, tainted blood, and potential side effects for frequent donors with piercing meditations on how it feels to know that her medication “is built on the backs of quiet, hidden economic desperation.” The result is a captivating and anguished exposé..
