- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- The culture and politics of health care work
- Uniform Title
- Prescription for the people (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Prescription for the people (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2017022718
- OCLC
- ssj0001907513
- Author
Quigley, Fran, 1962-
- Title
Prescription for the people [electronic resource] : an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all / Fran Quigley.
- Imprint
Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017.
- Series
The culture and politics of health care work
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
Print version: Quigley, Fran, 1962- author. Prescription for the people Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501713750 (DLC) 2017020499