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Blood money : the story of life, death, and profit inside America's blood industry / Kathleen McLaughlin.

by McLaughlin, Kathleen (Journalist), author.

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New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2023.

Blood banks -- United States.

Blood banks -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Blood banks -- Corrupt practices.

Blood products -- United States.

Blood donors -- Economic conditions.

9781982171964 (hardcover) :

1982171960 (hardcover) :

227 pages : map ; 24 cm

First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.

The whistleblower -- The sellers -- Mormon country, USA -- The blood of our youth -- Moving blood -- The vampires of capitalism -- Vanity and blood -- Hollowed out and never enough -- The rust in our veins -- Flint -- The blood givers' union -- The father of blood banking -- Crime and punishment in Texas -- Borderlands -- A battle for blood on the border -- What to do about the giant pool.

"Blood Money shares McLaughlins 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 profita 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 Americas southern border, where collection agencies target Mexican citizens willing to cross over and sell their plasma for substandard pay."-- Publisher.

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