Capitalizing a Cure : : how finance controls the price and value of medicines / / Victor Roy.
"Capitalizing a Cure takes us into the struggle over accessing a medical breakthrough to investigate the power of finance over business, biomedicine, and public health. When sofosbuvir-based medicines launched in 2013, they promised a cure for millions of patients worldwide with hepatitis C. Bu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : pandemics, Wall Street, and the value playbook
- Introduction : the politics of drug pricing and the value of a cure
- Capitalizing science : public knowledge into pharmaceutical assets
- Capitalizing drugs : shareholder power and the cannibalizing company
- Capitalizing health : the struggle over value and treatment access
- From financialization to public purpose for health
- Conclusion : reckoning with pharmaceutical value in crisis times.