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Blood on Their Hands : How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs / / Eric Weinberg, Donna Shaw



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Autore: Weinberg Eric Visualizza persona
Titolo: Blood on Their Hands : How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs / / Eric Weinberg, Donna Shaw Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 343.7307/86161572061
Soggetto topico: 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
Persona (resp. second.): ShawDonna
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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, 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Blood on Their Hands  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8135-7623-7
0-8135-7624-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910795222803321
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