blood money
Our most personal substance—our blood—has become a commodity, a substance traded for profit at the expense of the most vulnerable.
Kathleen McLaughlin is an award-winning journalist who reports and writes about the consequences of economic inequality around the world. A frequent contributor to The Washington Post and The Guardian, McLaughlin’s reporting has also appeared in The New York Times, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Economist, NPR, and more. She is a former Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT and has won multiple awards for her reporting on labor in China. Blood Money is her first book.
Our most personal substance—our blood—has become a commodity, a substance traded for profit at the expense of the most vulnerable.