03948nam 22006135 450 991081774690332120230809234700.00-8135-7623-70-8135-7624-510.36019/9780813576244(CKB)4340000000209025(OCoLC)1006381264(MdBmJHUP)muse65621(MiAaPQ)EBC5107225(DE-B1597)526364(DE-B1597)9780813576244(EXLCZ)99434000000020902520190904d2017 fg engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBlood on Their Hands How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs /Eric Weinberg, Donna ShawNew Brunswick, NJ :Rutgers University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) illustrations0-8135-7622-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --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 --IndexA 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, and Big Pharma all had a hand in this devastating epidemic. Blood on Their Hands is an inspiring, firsthand account of the legal battles fought on behalf of hemophiliacs who were unwittingly infected with tainted blood. As part of the team behind the key class action litigation filed by the infected, young New Jersey lawyer Eric Weinberg was faced with a daunting task: to prove the negligence of a powerful, well-connected global industry worth billions. Weinberg and journalist Donna Shaw tell the dramatic story of how idealistic attorneys and their heroic, mortally-ill clients fought to achieve justice and prevent further infections. A stunning exposé of one of the American medical system's most shameful debacles, Blood on Their Hands is a rousing reminder that, through perseverance, the victims of corporate greed can sometimes achieve great victory.Biological productsLaw and legislationUnited StatesBloodTransfusionComplicationsUnited StatesProducts liabilityUnited StatesBlood banksUnited StatesQuality controlHemophiliaLaw and legislationUnited StatesCriminal provisionsHemophiliacsLegal status, laws, etcUnited StatesHemophiliacsInfectionsUnited StatesBiological productsLaw and legislationBloodTransfusionComplicationsProducts liabilityBlood banksQuality control.HemophiliaLaw and legislationCriminal provisions.HemophiliacsLegal status, laws, etc.HemophiliacsInfections343.7307/86161572061Weinberg Eric1594671Shaw DonnaDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910817746903321Blood on Their Hands3915284UNINA