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Blood: Gift or Merchandise

Blood: Gift or Merchandise I think there ought to be a law requiring truth in book reviewing. Too often I have read a glowing review, only to discover later and inadvertently that the reviewer was the author’s mentor or that they have shared a summer house for years. And then there was the time that something I had written was reviewed by an archenemy, who failed to disclose that fact (even to me) before the piece was published. To be sure, reviews are usually accompanied by brief lines identifying the reviewer-Professor Smith teaches history at Bigtown University or Mr. Jones is an expert on the Chinese economy and enjoys fishing-but nothing of importance is ever revealed. What I want to know is the reviewer’s debts and biases before I read on. Let the truth be told. I am the coauthor of a rival book to that prepared by Piet Hagen. With Alvin Drake and Stan Finkelstein, colleagues at M.I.T., I have written a book entitled The American Blood Supply that covers much of the same ground and that appeared in the same year as Blood: Gift or Merchandise. If you do not buy Hagen’s book, perhaps you will buy ours. Ours is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Duke University Press

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Publisher
Duke University Press
Copyright
Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press
ISSN
0361-6878
eISSN
1527-1927
DOI
10.1215/03616878-8-4-814
Publisher site
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Abstract

I think there ought to be a law requiring truth in book reviewing. Too often I have read a glowing review, only to discover later and inadvertently that the reviewer was the author’s mentor or that they have shared a summer house for years. And then there was the time that something I had written was reviewed by an archenemy, who failed to disclose that fact (even to me) before the piece was published. To be sure, reviews are usually accompanied by brief lines identifying the reviewer-Professor Smith teaches history at Bigtown University or Mr. Jones is an expert on the Chinese economy and enjoys fishing-but nothing of importance is ever revealed. What I want to know is the reviewer’s debts and biases before I read on. Let the truth be told. I am the coauthor of a rival book to that prepared by Piet Hagen. With Alvin Drake and Stan Finkelstein, colleagues at M.I.T., I have written a book entitled The American Blood Supply that covers much of the same ground and that appeared in the same year as Blood: Gift or Merchandise. If you do not buy Hagen’s book, perhaps you will buy ours. Ours is

Journal

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and LawDuke University Press

Published: Dec 1, 1984

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