Bad blood and unsettled law: Are healing and justice even possible when biocapitalism prevails?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
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.
Identifier
85071896292 (Scopus)
Publication Title
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
External Full Text Location
https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2019.0034
ISSN
00315982
PubMed ID
31495799
First Page
576
Last Page
590
Issue
3
Volume
62
Recommended Citation
Pemberton, Stephen, "Bad blood and unsettled law: Are healing and justice even possible when biocapitalism prevails?" (2019). Faculty Publications. 7943.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/fac_pubs/7943
