Overview
Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin knew sheād found a treatment that worked on her rare autoimmune disorder. She had no idea it had been drawn from the veins of Americaās most vulnerable.
So begins McLaughlinās ten-year investigation researching and reporting on the $20-billion-a year business she found at the other end of her medication, revealing a āvampiric real-life story of modern-day greedā (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 Americaās domestic plasma supply chain and the one sheād seen spin out into chaos in China, she knew she had to dig deeper.
Blood Money shares McLaughlinās 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 profitāa 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 Americaās southern border, where collection agencies target Mexican citizens willing to cross over and sell their plasma for substandard pay.
This ācaptivating and anguished exposĆ©ā (Publishers Weekly) weaves together McLaughlinās 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.
This book title, Blood Money (The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry), ISBN: 9781982171971, by Kathleen McLaughlin, published by Atria/One Signal Publishers (January 30, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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