Prescription for the People : : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / / Fran Quigley.
In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines—and a prime...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Toxic Impacts
- 1 People Everywhere Are Struggling to Get the Medicines They Need
- 2 The United States Has a Drug Problem
- 3 Millions of People Are Dying Needlessly
- 4 Cancer Patients Face Particularly Deadly Barriers to Medicines
- 5 The Current Medicine System Neglects Many Major Diseases
- Part II. Profits over Patients
- 6 Corporate Research and Development Investments Are Exaggerated
- 7 The Current System Wastes Billions on Drug Marketing
- 8 The Current System Compromises Physician Integrity and Leads to Unethical Corporate Behavior
- 9 Medicines Are Priced at Whatever the Market Will Bear
- 10 Pharmaceutical Corporations Reap History-Making Profits
- Part III. Patently Poisonous
- 11 The For-Profit Medicine Arguments Are Patently False
- 12 Medicine Patents Are Extended Too Far and Too Wide
- 13 Patent Protectionism Stunts the Development of New Medicines
- 14 Governments, Not Private Corporations, Drive Medicine Innovation
- 15 Taxpayers and Patients Pay Twice for Patented Medicines
- Part IV Trading Away Our Health
- 16 Medicines Are a Public Good
- 17 Medicine Patents Are Artificial, Recent, and Government-Created
- 18 The United States and Big Pharma Play the Bully in Extending Patents
- 19 Pharma-Pushed Trade Agreements Steal the Power of Democratically Elected Governments
- Part V. A Better Remedy
- 20 Current Law Provides Opportunities for Affordable Generic Medicines
- 21 There Is a Better Way to Develop Medicines
- 22 Human Rights Law Demands Access to Essential Medicines
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index