Prescription for the People : An Activist's Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All /

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quigley, Fran (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]
Colección:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Temas:
Drug accessibility > United States.
Drugs > Prices > United States.
Health care reform > United States.
Pharmaceutical industry > United States.
Pharmaceutical policy > United States.
Prescription pricing > United States.
Consumer Health & Fitness.
Labor History.
Legal History & Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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