{"id":8154,"date":"2019-05-08T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=8154"},"modified":"2019-05-08T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:56:06","slug":"unwind-the-mind-with-bad-blood-featured-book-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2019\/05\/08\/unwind-the-mind-with-bad-blood-featured-book-for-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwind the Mind with Bad Blood, Featured book for May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/BadBlood.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8158 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/BadBlood.jpg?resize=132%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start Up\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>This fascinating story of the rise and fall of Theranos was recently made into a movie for HBO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/documentaries\/the-inventor-out-for-blood-in-silicon-valley\"><em>The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Theranos is the Silicon Valley start-up that set out to revolutionize medicine.\u00a0 Elizabeth Holmes, the brilliant, charismatic CEO, promised to reinvent the way patients are diagnosed for disease, by creating a machine that simplified blood tests, and gave the consumer more say in their own medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the technology never lived up to the hype, and from 2014 to 2017 Theranos went from a valuation of $9 billion to $0 in a stunning collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Author John\u00a0Carreyrou is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, whose investigative reporting revealed the fraud at the core of Theranos.\u00a0 <em>Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup<\/em> is a fascinating read that will keep you turning the pages until the end.<\/p>\n<p>Read more, with book reviews and author interviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simon, Scott. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/06\/23\/622795416\/reporter-john-carreyrou-on-the-bad-blood-of-theranos\">Reporter John Carreyrou On The &#8216;Bad Blood&#8217; Of Theranos<\/a>&#8220;. <em>NPR Weekend Edition Saturday<\/em>, June 23, 2018 Saturday. Accessed May 7, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Friedell, Deborah. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v41\/n03\/deborah-friedell\/a-chemistry-is-performed\">A Chemistry Is Performed<\/a>.\u201d <em>London Review of Books<\/em>, vol. 41, no. 3, Feb. 2019, p. 33.<\/li>\n<li>Lowenstein, Roger. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/21\/books\/review\/bad-blood-john-carreyrou.html\">This Will Only Hurt a Little: The Biotech Company That Scammed Silicon Valley and How It Got Caught<\/a>.\u201d <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em>, June 2018, p. 13.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find <em><a href=\"https:\/\/vufind.carli.illinois.edu\/vf-dpu\/Record\/dpu_1260559\/Holdings\">Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start Up<\/a><\/em> in the Lincoln Park Haber Lounge. Call Number: 338.7681761 C315B2018<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Come in and Check Us Out!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fascinating story of the rise and fall of Theranos was recently made into a movie for HBO: The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley.\u00a0 Theranos is the Silicon Valley start-up that set out to revolutionize medicine.\u00a0 Elizabeth Holmes, the brilliant, charismatic CEO, promised to reinvent the way patients are diagnosed for disease, by <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2019\/05\/08\/unwind-the-mind-with-bad-blood-featured-book-for-may\/\" class=\"read-more\">continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-books","category-unwind-the-mind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GMS7-27w","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/badblood.jpg?fit=331%2C500&ssl=1&wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8154"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8182,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions\/8182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}