How to Make a Killing - Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood

Informationen zum Autor Tom Mueller is a New York Times bestselling author whose previous books include Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud and E xtra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker , New York Times Magazine, National Geographic , and the Atlantic Monthly . He divides his time between the Pacific Northwest and Italy. Klappentext 'A terrifying story of profit before patients, and a chilling glimpse of what can happen when private companies are allowed to take charge of healthcare.' Gavin Francis 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. A triumph of investigative research, Tom Mueller's book features an unforgettable cast of characters: CEOs who dress as musketeers to exhort more aggressive profit-seeking, nephrologist insiders who reveal the substandard care this causes, and heroic patients who risk their lives to reveal the truth. Vorwort A riveting account of medical innovation, an industry shaped by greed, and the life or death fight for the right to healthcare Zusammenfassung How life-saving medicine became a for-profit enterprise that threatens the people it is meant to save

Product details

• Authors: Tom Mueller, Mueller Tom
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781800818422
• ISBN: 978-1-80081-842-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; MEDICAL / Nephrology, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, MEDICAL / Biotechnology, Biomedical engineering, Renal medicine & nephrology, Public health and preventive medicine, Medical and healthcare law, Renal medicine and nephrology, Biotechnology Industries