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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 19 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • 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