Prescription For The People: An Activist's Guide To Making Medicine Affordable For All (The Culture And Politics Of Health Care Work)

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Toxic Impacts -- 1. People Everywhere Are Struggling to Get the Medicines They Need -- 2. The United States Has a Drug Problem -- 3. Millions of People Are Dying Needlessly -- 4. Cancer Patients Face Particularly Deadly Barriers to Medicines -- 5. The Current Medicine System Neglects Many Major Diseases -- Part II. Profits over Patients -- 6. Corporate Research and Development Investments Are Exaggerated -- 7. The Current System Wastes Billions on Drug Marketing -- 8. The Current System Compromises Physician Integrity and Leads to Unethical Corporate Behavior -- 9. Medicines Are Priced at Whatever the Market Will Bear -- 10. Pharmaceutical Corporations Reap History-Making Profits -- Part III. Patently Poisonous -- 11. The For-Profit Medicine Arguments Are Patently False -- 12. Medicine Patents Are Extended Too Far and Too Wide -- 13. Patent Protectionism Stunts the Development of New Medicines -- 14. Governments, Not Private Corporations, Drive Medicine Innovation -- 15. Taxpayers and Patients Pay Twice for Patented Medicines -- Part IV. Trading Away Our Health -- 16. Medicines Are a Public Good -- 17. Medicine Patents Are Artificial, Recent, and Government-Created -- 18. The United States and Big Pharma Play the Bully in Extending Patents -- 19. Pharma-Pushed Trade Agreements Steal the Power of Democratically Elected Governments -- Part V.A Better Remedy -- 20. Current Law Provides Opportunities for Affordable Generic Medicines -- 21. There Is a Better Way to Develop Medicines -- 22. Human Rights Law Demands Access to Essential Medicines -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

• | Author: Fran Quigley
• | Publisher: ILR Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 260 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Business & Economics
• | ISBN-10: 1501713752
• | ISBN-13: 9781501713750