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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Ithaca :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Culture and politics of health care work.
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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.