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Health for sale / Regione Toscana presents ; a production Voli, Mammut Film ; directed by Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmaceutical industry--Developing countries.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices.
- Pharmaceutical ethics.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Vie dei farmaci
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2007.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Health for Sale asks: are the world's largest drug companies, paradoxically, major obstacles to making a healthier world? The film focuses on Big Pharma, the ten largest pharmaceutical makers, who account for 500 billion dollars of world health spending a year and whose 205 billion dollars in pre-tax profits were more than the combined profits of the 490 other Fortune 500 companies. Officials from all sides debate the impact of drug companies' patenting, "intellectual property", pricing and new product development strategies on global public health. These policies, according to Nobel Prize winning economist and former World Bank Chief Economist, Joseph Stiglitz "are condemning billions of the world's poorest citizens to death.".
- Participant:
- Narrator, Timothy Trevor-Briscoe.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 21, 2017).
- OCLC:
- 1003460585
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