How to make a killing : death, dollars and the business of blood
Mueller, Tom, 1963-2023
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Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable condition. Yet, in the hands of a predatory medical industry, this triumph led to skyrocketing costs and worsening care. A gripping account of privatised healthcare gone wrong, 'How to Make a Killing' recounts how the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s - when transplants and dialysis machines offered hope - gave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing and profiting from life-saving care, and how Big Dialysis proliferated at the expense of its patients.
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Author:
Mueller, Tom, 1963-, author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2023.
Collation:
288 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781800818422 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2396898