Blood on their hands : how greedy companies, inept bureaucracy, and bad science killed thousands of hemophiliacs

Blood on their hands : how greedy companies, inept bureaucracy, and bad science killed thousands of hemophiliacs /

"A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more than just an unforeseeable public health disaster. Negligent doctors, government regulators, a...

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Main Authors: Weinberg, Eric, 1955- (Author), Shaw, Donna, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Weinberg, Eric, > 1955-
Biological products > Law and legislation > United States.
Blood > Transfusion > Complications > United States.
Products liability > United States.
Blood banks > United States > Quality control.
Hemophilia > Law and legislation > United States > Criminal provisions.
Hemophiliacs > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Hemophiliacs > Infections > United States.
Blood Safety
Patient Harm > legislation & jurisprudence
Lawyers
Hemophilia A > complications
HIV Infections > etiology
Hepatitis, Viral, Human > etiology
Malpractice > legislation & jurisprudence
LAW > Military.
MEDICAL > History.
Biological products > Law and legislation
Blood banks > Quality control
Blood > Transfusion > Complications
Products liability
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Liquid gold
  • Beginnings
  • How could it happen and nobody did anything wrong?
  • A history ignored
  • Digging in
  • Reaching out
  • Help wanted
  • All for business
  • Somewhere here, I have the documents
  • More lawyers, more experts
  • A meeting with Roger
  • An act of man
  • The trouble with torts
  • I murdered my child, but not alone
  • Of sheep and men
  • A failure of leadership
  • From prime chuck to dogeza
  • Endings
  • Epilogue.

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