Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Prescription for the people

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

981116453

Responsibility statement

Fran Quigley

Series statement

The culture and politics of health care work

Sub title

an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all

Summary

"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 argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines -- and a primer on how to make that change happen." --, Back cover

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

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