Bad blood and unsettled law: Are healing and justice even possible when biocapitalism prevails?

Stephen Pemberton

doi:10.1353/pbm.2019.0034

Bad blood and unsettled law: Are healing and justice even possible when biocapitalism prevails?

Stephen Pemberton

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Eric Weinberg and Donna Shaw’s Blood on Their Hands: How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs (2017) belongs to a genre of underappreciated works that examine one of the greatest medical tragedies of the 20th century: The iatrogenic epidemics of HIV-AIDS among hemophilia patients. The book’s focus on the legal fallout in the United States following this medical catastrophe typifies how and why good decision-making, effective healing, and social justice have been so elusive in our emergent age of global biocapitalism.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	576-590
Number of pages	15
Journal	Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Volume	62
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2019.0034
State	Published - 2019

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Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Health Policy
History and Philosophy of Science

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