Description
| Product ID: | 9781800818422 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | How to Make a Killing |
| Subtitle: | Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood |
| Authors: | Author: Tom Mueller |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Medical and healthcare law, Medical & healthcare law, Public health and preventive medicine, History of medicine, Renal medicine and nephrology, Biomedical engineering, Public health & preventive medicine, History of medicine, Renal medicine & nephrology, Biomedical engineering |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating How life-saving medicine became a for-profit enterprise that threatens the people it is meant to save ''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 FrancisSix 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-08-01 |
