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How to Make a Killing

Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2025 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80081-843-9 (ISBN)
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'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.

Tom Mueller is a New York Times-bestselling author whose previous books include Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud and Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic and the Atlantic. He divides his time between the Pacific Northwest and Italy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.7.2025
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie Orthopädie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Technik Medizintechnik
ISBN-10 1-80081-843-2 / 1800818432
ISBN-13 978-1-80081-843-9 / 9781800818439
Zustand Neuware
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