‘We’ve messed up, boys’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: Bad Blood, 16 November 2023
The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood
by Cara McGoogan.
Viking, 396 pp., £20, September 2023,978 0 241 62750 1 Show More
by Cara McGoogan.
Viking, 396 pp., £20, September 2023,
Death in the Blood: The Inside Story of the NHS Infected Blood Scandal
by Caroline Wheeler.
Headline, 390 pp., £22, September 2023,978 1 0354 0524 4 Show More
by Caroline Wheeler.
Headline, 390 pp., £22, September 2023,
“... available in light of the medical knowledge at the time.’ These claims were not true.In 1970, Richard Titmuss celebrated Britain’s tradition of voluntary blood donation in The Gift Relationship, warning that paid-for blood carried a greater risk of contamination. But while it was true that most ‘whole blood’ in the UK came from volunteers, blood ... ”