Prescription for the people : : an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all / / Fran Quigley.
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Superior document: | The culture and politics of health care work |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,, 2017. |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Culture and politics of health care work.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 pages). |
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490 | 1 | |a The culture and politics of health care work | |
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a People everywhere are struggling to get the medicines they need -- The United States has a drug problem -- Millions of people are dying needlessly -- Cancer patients face particularly deadly barriers to medicines -- The current medicine system neglects many major diseases -- Corporate research and development investments are exaggerated -- The current system wastes billions on drug marketing -- The current system compromises physician integrity and leads to unethical corporate behavior -- Medicines are priced at whatever the market will bear -- Pharmaceutical corporations reap history-making profits -- The for-profit medicine arguments are patently false -- Medicine patents are extended too far and too wide -- Patent protectionism stunts the development of new medicines -- Governments, not private corporations, drive medicine innovation -- Taxpayers and patients pay twice for patented medicines -- Medicines are a public good -- Medicine patents are artificial, recent, and government-created -- The United States and big pharma play the bully in extending patents -- Pharma-pushed trade agreements steal the power of democratically elected governments -- Current law provides opportunities for affordable generic medicines -- There is a better way to develop medicines -- Human rights law demands access to essential medicines. | |
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590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
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650 | 0 | |a Prescription pricing |z United States. | |
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