Capitalizing a cure : how finance controls the price and value of medicines /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2023]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.