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Prescription for the people : an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all / Fran Quigley.
Lippincott Library HD9666.4 .Q54 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quigley, Fran, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Culture and politics of health care work
- The culture and politics of health care work
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--Prices--United States.
- Drugs.
- Drugs--Prices.
- Drug accessibility.
- United States.
- Prescription pricing--United States.
- Prescription pricing.
- Drug accessibility--United States.
- Pharmaceutical policy--United States.
- Pharmaceutical policy.
- Pharmaceutical industry--United States.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 243 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Quigley, Fran, 1962- author. Prescription for the people
- ISBN:
- 9781501713750
- 1501713752
- OCLC:
- 981116453
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