Prescription for the People : An Activistâ#x80;#x99;s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All /
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| Author / Creator: | Quigley, Fran, 1962- author. |
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| Imprint: | Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The culture and politics of health care work Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11758447 |
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.