Abstract
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) |
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Pages (from-to) | 576-590 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Perspectives in Biology and Medicine |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2019 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects
- Health Policy
- History and Philosophy of Science