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Title

Health for sale / directed by Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi.

Publication

[San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Mellara, Michele
• First Hand Films (Firm), production company.

Description

1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Are the world's largest drug companies, paradoxically, major obstacles to creating a healthier world? Focusing on Big Pharma (the ten largest pharmaceutical makers), we hear from officials on all sides of the debate regarding the impact of drug companies' patenting, intellectual property, pricing and new product development strategies on global public health.

Subject

• Pharmaceutical policy
• Pharmaceutical ethics
• Pharmaceutical industry > Corrupt practices
• Pharmaceutical industry > Developing countries
• Pharmaceutical policy > Developing countries
• Pharmaceutical industry > Moral and ethical aspects
• AIDS (Disease) > Chemotherapy > Economic aspects
• HIV infections > Chemotherapy > Economic aspects
• Antimalarials > Economic aspects > Developing countries

Genre/Form

• Documentary films.
• Nonfiction films.

Note

• Narrator, Timothy Trevor-Briscoe.

Credits (note)

• Screenwriters, Michele Cogo and Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi ; cinematographer, Michele Mellara ; film editor, Fabio Bianchini Pepegna ; composers, Nicola Bagnoll, Alessandra Reggiani ; First Hand Films ; produced by Mammut Film Srl, Voli Soc. Coop.

System Details (note)

• DVD ; standard format.

Contents

Pharmaceutical industry and its regulatory regime -- Patented vs. generic drugs : the role of TRIPS -- Compulsory licensing : access to generics in developing countries -- India and generic drug production -- HIV in Africa -- Maintaining monopoly : extending patent life -- Profit vs need : the development of new drugs -- Infrastructure and distribution -- Creating profitable health conditions.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-24

OCLC

228142643

Title

Health for sale / directed by Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi.

Publisher

[San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, 2007.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Credits

Screenwriters, Michele Cogo and Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi ; cinematographer, Michele Mellara ; film editor, Fabio Bianchini Pepegna ; composers, Nicola Bagnoll, Alessandra Reggiani ; First Hand Films ; produced by Mammut Film Srl, Voli Soc. Coop.

System Details

DVD ; standard format.

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Added Author

Mellara, Michele, film director.

First Hand Films (Firm), production company.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-24