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Author: Cara McGoogan Publisher: Diversion Books ISBN: 163576954X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 446
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“A stunning investigation.” —Publishers Weekly How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis. By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely. Then, as chronicled in Blood Farm, a new HIV-positive population emerged, one that included kids like Ken Dixon, Brad Cross, and Ryan White who had been infected as young as ten years old. But how? Unbeknownst to doctors and patients, pharmaceutical companies like Bayer, Baxter, and Armour collected plasma on skid row, in night clubs, and in some of America’s most notorious prisons to make Factor VIII, a new miracle treatment for hemophilia. Companies knew these practices put patients at high risk of HIV, but miracles are a lucrative business, so they knowingly sold an infected product and effectively played Russian Roulette with hemophiliacs’ lives. The results were catastrophic. In America, some 8,000 people with hemophilia contracted HIV; only 700 are alive today. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan daringly exposes an expansive map of corporate greed and negligence that led to one of the biggest overlooked medical scandals in history. Alongside her we meet survivors turned activists, determined small town lawyers, and fearless reporters desperate for justice. Their fight for retribution created a critical inflection point in the AIDS crisis: stigmas shifted, settlements were awarded, and, later, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the largest federal program on HIV. In shocking, riveting detail, Blood Farm uncovers how a miracle treatment became a deadly poison and forever changed our understanding of AIDS.
Author: Cara McGoogan Publisher: Diversion Books ISBN: 163576954X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 446
Book Description
“A stunning investigation.” —Publishers Weekly How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis. By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely. Then, as chronicled in Blood Farm, a new HIV-positive population emerged, one that included kids like Ken Dixon, Brad Cross, and Ryan White who had been infected as young as ten years old. But how? Unbeknownst to doctors and patients, pharmaceutical companies like Bayer, Baxter, and Armour collected plasma on skid row, in night clubs, and in some of America’s most notorious prisons to make Factor VIII, a new miracle treatment for hemophilia. Companies knew these practices put patients at high risk of HIV, but miracles are a lucrative business, so they knowingly sold an infected product and effectively played Russian Roulette with hemophiliacs’ lives. The results were catastrophic. In America, some 8,000 people with hemophilia contracted HIV; only 700 are alive today. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan daringly exposes an expansive map of corporate greed and negligence that led to one of the biggest overlooked medical scandals in history. Alongside her we meet survivors turned activists, determined small town lawyers, and fearless reporters desperate for justice. Their fight for retribution created a critical inflection point in the AIDS crisis: stigmas shifted, settlements were awarded, and, later, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the largest federal program on HIV. In shocking, riveting detail, Blood Farm uncovers how a miracle treatment became a deadly poison and forever changed our understanding of AIDS.
Author: Sam Siciliano Publisher: Random House Incorporated ISBN: 9780517006603 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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Hitchhiking back to college, Angela accepts a ride in a hearse, and together with the driver, Mike, experiences a night of terror at the hands of their vampire hosts at Blut Farm
Author: Cristine Courcy Publisher: Smashed House Publishing LLC ISBN: 1962753050 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 475
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Kidnapped kids…butchered babysitters…and a trace of dark magic…is this a case even Logan can’t solve? Phoenix sure thinks so… Ever since she left Nile, teenage witch, Phoenix Grey, has wanted nothing more than to put that night on Bird Island behind her, hunt down some monsters, and save some people. But Phoenix is not the one in charge. Logan is. And he’s only focused on hunting down the demon, Carmen, and getting his revenge. But after weeks of dead ends, bad motels, and moody best friends (*cough* Cole *cough*), she is so over it. Then, when she spots a missing child poster, Phoenix decides to take matters into her own hands. She soon uncovers a case so baffling, even Logan is at a loss: vanishing children, shredded teenagers, a local legend of blood...and none of it adds up. Meanwhile, Cole is suffering from demonic dreams that no one can explain…and when his nightmares start to come true, Phoenix thinks they should use them to their advantage in solving the mystery. Unfortunately, no one else does. And after a series of (questionable) decisions, one of which resulting in another attack, Phoenix is sidelined from the investigation. Because, somehow, she’s still not in charge. But it’s her case. She’s going to solve it. The only problem is: How can Phoenix hunt down the monster when nobody trusts her to do it? The Grey Sisters Saga is a fast-paced, YA (cozy) dark fantasy series with magic, monsters, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end. A Supernatural meets Sabrina the Teenage Witch thriller, the saga follows twin witch sisters on a monster hunting road trip across the United States. But when the hunters become the hunted, everything changes—and monsters might prove to be the least of their problems. With strong female leads and even stronger family themes, the Grey Sisters Saga promises to be the next cult classic.
Author: Marcus F. Griffin Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide ISBN: 0738729418 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 132
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Foreword by Ghostvillage.com founder and author Jeff Belanger Okie Pinokie and the Demon Pillar Pigs. The Ghost Children of Munchkinland Cemetery. The Legend of Primrose Road. Join Marcus F. Griffin, founder of Witches in Search of the Paranormal (WISP), as he and his team explore the Midwest's most haunted properties. These true case files of extreme paranormal investigations include the creepiest-of-the-creepy cases WISP has tackled over the years, many of them in locations that have never before been investigated. Readers will get an inside glimpse of these previously inaccessible places-such as the former Jeffrey Dahmer property, as WISP searches for the notorious serial killer's spirit-and the farm that belonged to Belle Gunness, America's first female serial killer and the perpetrator of the Blood Farm Horror. Praise: "A hell of a trip. Highly recommended."—Michael McCarty, Bram Stoker Finalist and author of Monster Behind the Wheel
Author: Truman Capote Publisher: Modern Library ISBN: 0812994388 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 417
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
Author: Scott Carney Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062079581 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 235
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“An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported….A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities.” —Michael Largo, author of Final Exits Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads readers on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach’s Stiff, Carney’s The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and child trafficking, raising issues and exposing corruptions almost too bizarre and shocking to imagine.
Author: Aspasia Stephanou Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137349239 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 316
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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture.
Author: Emily McKay Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0718197429 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 394
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For Lily and her twin sister Mel there is only the Farm. It's a prison, a blood bank, a death camp - where fear and paranoia rule. But it's also home, of sorts. Because beyond the electric fence awaits a fate much, much worse. But Lily has a plan. She and Mel are going to escape - into the ravaged land outside, a place of freedom and chaos and horrors.
Author: Cara McGoogan
Author: Cara McGoogan
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