Health Advocacy, Inc. : How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement / Sharon Batt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Batt, Sharon, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patient advocacy--Canada.

Patient advocacy.

Breast--Cancer--Research--Canada--Finance.

Breast.

Pharmaceutical industry--Canada.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Medical policy--Canada.

Medical policy.

Patient Advocacy--history.

Breast Neoplasms.

Drug Industry--history.

Drug Industry--economics.

Pharmaceutical Research--economics.

Health Policy.

Breast--Cancer--Research--Finance.

Canada.

Medical Subjects:

Patient Advocacy--history.

Breast Neoplasms.

Drug Industry--history.

Drug Industry--economics.

Pharmaceutical Research--economics.

Health Policy.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, BC : University of British Columbia Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Over the past several decades, a gradual reduction in state funding has pressured patient groups into forming private-sector partnerships, raising an important ethical question: do these alliances ultimately lead to policies that are counter to the public interest? Health activist, scholar, and cancer survivor Sharon Batt examines the issue by investigating Canada’s breast cancer movement from 1990 to 2010. Health Advocacy, Inc. dissects the relationship between the companies that sell pharmaceuticals and the individuals who use them, drawing links between neoliberalism and corporate financing and the ensuing threat to the public health care system. Combining archival analysis, interviews with advocacy and industry representatives, and personal observation, Batt argues that the resulting power imbalance continues to challenge the groups’ ability to put patients’ interests ahead of those of the funders. A movement that once encouraged democratic participation in the development of health policy now eerily echoes the demands of the pharmaceutical industry. Batt’s thorough account of this shift defines the stakes of activism in public health today.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Canada’s Health Care System Transformed

Canada’s Health Policy Landscape

Health Advocacy Organizations in Canada

From Grassroots to Contestation to Partnership

Beginnings of the Breast Cancer Movement

Advocacy Redefined

The Movement Fractures over Pharma Funding

Pharma Funding as the New Norm

Advocacy Groups and the Continuing Struggle over the Pharma-Funding Question

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

0-7748-3386-6

OCLC:

983482116