LEADER 03948nam 22006135 450 001 9910817746903321 005 20230809234700.0 010 $a0-8135-7623-7 010 $a0-8135-7624-5 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813576244 035 $a(CKB)4340000000209025 035 $a(OCoLC)1006381264 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5107225 035 $a(DE-B1597)526364 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813576244 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000209025 100 $a20190904d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlood on Their Hands $eHow Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs /$fEric Weinberg, Donna Shaw 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-8135-7622-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tNote on Text --$t1. Liquid Gold --$t2. Beginnings --$t3. How Could It Happen and Nobody Did Anything Wrong? --$t4. A History Ignored --$t5. Digging In --$t6. Reaching Out --$t7. Help Wanted --$t8. All for Business --$t9. Somewhere Here, I Have the Documents --$t10. More Lawyers, More Experts --$t11. A Meeting with Roger --$t12. An Act of Man --$t13. The Trouble with Torts --$t14. I Murdered My Child, But Not Alone --$t15. Of Sheep and Men --$t16. A Failure of Leadership --$t17. From Prime Chuck to Dogeza --$t18. Endings --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aA 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. 606 $aBiological products$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aBlood$xTransfusion$xComplications$zUnited States 606 $aProducts liability$zUnited States 606 $aBlood banks$zUnited States$xQuality control 606 $aHemophilia$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States$xCriminal provisions 606 $aHemophiliacs$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 606 $aHemophiliacs$xInfections$zUnited States 615 0$aBiological products$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aBlood$xTransfusion$xComplications 615 0$aProducts liability 615 0$aBlood banks$xQuality control. 615 0$aHemophilia$xLaw and legislation$xCriminal provisions. 615 0$aHemophiliacs$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aHemophiliacs$xInfections 676 $a343.7307/86161572061 700 $aWeinberg$b Eric$01594671 702 $aShaw$b Donna 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817746903321 996 $aBlood on Their Hands$93915284 997 $aUNINA