Pharmanomics : how big pharma destroys global health / Nick Dearden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dearden, Nick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmaceutical industry--Moral and ethical aspects.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Physical Description:

xx, 315 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2023.

Summary:

"In Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences"-- Provided by publisher.

Big Pharma is more interested in profit than health. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic. Behind the much-trumpeted scientific breakthroughs, major companies found new ways of gouging billions from governments in the West while abandoning the Global South. But this is only the latest episode in a long history of financialising medicine—from Purdue’s rapacious marketing of highly addictive OxyContin through Martin Shkreli’s hiking the price of a lifesaving drug to the 4.5 million South Africans needlessly deprived of HIV/AIDS medication. Since the 1990s, Big Pharma has gone out of its way to protect its property through the patent system. As a result, the business has focused not on researching new medicines but on building monopolies. This system has helped restructure our economy away from invention and production in order to benefit financial markets. It has fundamentally reshaped the relationship between richer and poorer countries, as the access to new medicines and the permission to manufacture them is ruthlessly policed. In response, Dearden offers a pathway to a fairer, safer system for all. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A History of Scandal

A Hedge Fund with a Pharmaceutical Firm Attached

It Was Greed, My Friends

The Pandemic Begins

Recolonising the Global Economy

The Hospital That Became a Trading Floor

A New Hope

Reach for the Moon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dearden, Nick. Pharmanomics

ISBN:

9781804291450

1804291455

OCLC:

1353761431

Publisher Number:

90100790723