Blood on Their Hands: How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs

Author:   Eric Weinberg ,  Donna Shaw
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9780813576220


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   15 September 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Eric Weinberg ,  Donna Shaw
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780813576220


ISBN 10:   0813576229
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   15 September 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Text 1 Liquid Gold 2 Beginnings 3 How Could It Happen and Nobody Did Anything Wrong? 4 A History Ignored 5 Digging In 6 Reaching Out 7 Help Wanted 8 All for Business 9 Somewhere Here, I Have the Documents 10 More Lawyers, More Experts 11 A Meeting with Roger 12 An Act of Man 13 The Trouble with Torts 14 I Murdered My Child, But Not Alone 15 Of Sheep and Men 16 A Failure of Leadership 17 From Prime Chuck to Dogeza 18 Endings Epilogue Notes Index

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<i>Blood on Their Hands</i> is a well-written, gripping, and important book - thorough and engaging. Weinberg and Shaw have crafted a valuable addition to the literature of the AIDS tragedy. --Douglas Starr author of BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce


-Blood on Their Hands is a well-written, gripping, and important book - thorough and engaging. Weinberg and Shaw have crafted a valuable addition to the literature of the AIDS tragedy.---Douglas Starr -author of BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce -


-This book will make your blood boil at the inhumanity of people who knew they were killing patients by the thousands and kept right on, caring for themselves and their pocketbooks. Eric Weinberg and Donna Shaw tell a powerful human story that is hard to put down and will be even harder to forget.---David Cay Johnston -Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author - -Blood on Their Hands is a well-written, gripping, and important book - thorough and engaging. Weinberg and Shaw have crafted a valuable addition to the literature of the AIDS tragedy.---Douglas Starr -author of BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce - Blood on Their Hands is a well-written, gripping, and important book - thorough and engaging. Weinberg and Shaw have crafted a valuable addition to the literature of the AIDS tragedy. --Douglas Starr author of BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce ? Blood on Their Hands is a well-written, gripping, and important book - thorough and engaging. Weinberg and Shaw have crafted a valuable addition to the literature of the AIDS tragedy. ?--Douglas Starr author of BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce ? An Act of Man is a well-written, gripping, and important book - thorough and engaging. Weinberg and Shaw have crafted a valuable addition to the literature of the AIDS tragedy?. ?--Douglas Starr author of BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce


Author Information

ERIC WEINBERG is a practicing attorney in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He also serves as a visiting lecturer at Rutgers University and is a regular public speaker on the topic of injury claims and lawsuits.   DONNA SHAW is an associate professor of journalism, and the chair of the Journalism and Professional Writing program at The College of New Jersey in Ewing Township. She is also a former reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where her work was thrice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

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