Prescription for the people : : an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all / / Fran Quigley.

• Superior document: The culture and politics of health care work
• VerfasserIn: Quigley, Fran, 1962-
• 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.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 pages).

Table of Contents

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.