{"product_id":"blood-money-the-story-of-life-death-and-profit-inside-americas-blood-industry-9781982171964","title":"Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"haunting\" (Anne Helen Petersen, author of \u003ci\u003eCan't Even\u003c\/i\u003e) and deeply personal investigation of an underground for-profit medical industry and the American underclass it drains for blood and profit.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJournalist 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAssigned 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Money\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcLaughlin'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. \u003ci\u003eBlood Money\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen McLaughlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atria\/One Signal Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982171964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2022 pg. 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathleen McLaughlin is an award-winning journalist who reports and writes about the consequences of economic inequality around the world. A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, McLaughlin's reporting has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Economist, \u003c\/i\u003e NPR\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and more. She is a former Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT and has won multiple awards for her reporting on labor in China. \u003ci\u003eBlood Money\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atria\/One Signal Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40789366833267,"sku":"9.78198E+12","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_665cf92e-e60b-473d-991d-23a8cf73fc17.jpg?v=1681304627","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/blood-money-the-story-of-life-death-and-profit-inside-americas-blood-industry-9781982171964","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}