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04356aam a22005418i 4500 001 B48D1656BF1111ED8AFE88FD4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230310010343 008 220909s2023 nyub e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022034219 020 $a 1982171979 020 $a 9781982171971 020 $a 1982171960 020 $a 9781982171964 035 $a (OCoLC)1330895292 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d TOH $d GK8 $d JVK $d RNL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a McLaughlin, Kathleen $c (Journalist), $e author. 245 10 $a Blood money : $b the story of life, death, and profit inside America's blood industry / $c by Kathleen McLaughlin. 246 30 $a Story of life, death, and profit inside America's blood industry 250 $a First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition. 263 $a 2301 264 1 $a New York : $b One Signal Publishers/Atria, $c 2023. 300 $a 227 pages : $b map ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "Bad Blood meets Dreamland in this kaleidoscopic investigation into the shadowy and vampiric blood business and the dangerous limits of demand for the crucial resource that runs through our very veins. Every year, about twenty million Americans sell blood plasma for cash in a barely regulated market dominated by private industry and off-the-grid trafficking. These commercial efforts prey on an insatiable market for medical and scientific innovation fed from the veins of some of the country's most marginalized communities, such as undocumented immigrants and residents of poverty-stricken Flint, Michigan. We are often told that "blood donations" are used to save lives, but blood plasma, a component of whole blood, has become a precious commercial good. Blood plasma is collected and marketed by private industry, with the United States one of just five nations on the planet that have not yet banned the practice of pay-for-plasma giving. This precious resource is used for everything from expensive and unproven age-reversing treatments to costly and experimental cures for novel diseases like COVID-19. Based on a cross-country investigation into the plasma-giving capitals of the country, in-depth research into the blood industry, and her personal experience as a beneficiary of plasma-derived treatment for a rare condition, Kathleen McLaughlin's Blood Money reveals the underhanded machinations and unbalanced power structures of the blood industry. Taking us from China's blood black market to Silicon Valley's shadowy tech startups, this is an unforgettable inside look at an industry many of us had no idea even existed. Blood Money is an electrifying exposeÌ that demonstrates the shadowy overlap between big medicine and big business and paints a searing portrait of the extent to which American industry feeds on the country's most vulnerable"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Blood banks $z United States. 650 0 $a Blood products $z United States. 650 7 $a MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Blood banks. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00834652 650 7 $a Blood products. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00834806 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 $i Online version: $a McLaughlin, Kathleen. $t Blood money $d New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2023 $z 9781982171988 $w (DLC) 2022034220 941 $a 10 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024726.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20231206014341.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033942.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100425.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011436.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20230620010529.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230603010744.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20230422010847.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230404015956.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230310010743.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B48D1656BF1111ED8AFE88FD4CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search