The physical, psychological, and economic costs of selling one’s plasma in the USA w/ Kathleen McLaughlin [Episode 103]

<p>Kathleen McLaughlin and Paul Krauss MA LPC discuss the physical, psychological, and economic costs of selling one's plasma in the USA, as well as how the blood industry's current business model impacts the greater health of our society. Kathleen shares the knowledge she has gained through her own personal experience as a recipient of plasma-based medications, and as a journalist who has interviewed people who supplement their income by selling their plasma, and investigated the business model both locally and internationally. While one may initially believe this topic to be unrelated to psychology and philosophy, this podcast discusses the intersections between the the health impacts, the psychological outcomes, and the entire notion of what type of country/world we want to live in--and how all of this can be shaped by Blood Money.</p> <p><a href='https://twitter.com/kemc?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor'>Kathleen McLaughlin</a> is an award-winning journalist <a href='https://substack.com/profile/4180159-kathleen-mclaughlin'>who reports and writes about the consequences of economic inequality around the world</a>. 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.</p> <p><a href='https://bookshop.org/p/books/blood-money-the-story-of-life-death-and-profit-inside-america-s-blood-industry-kathleen-mclaughlin/18566358'>Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry with journalist Kathleen McLaughlin.</a></p> <ul><li>Get involved with the <a href='https://violencepreventionhotline.org/'>National Violence Prevention Hotline</a>: 501(c)(3) <ul><li><a href='https://violencepreventionhotline.org/donate/'>Donate</a></li> <li><a href='https://violencepreventionhotline.org/'>Share with y