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Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / / Fran Quigley
| Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / / Fran Quigley |
| Autore | Quigley Fran <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca : , : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
| Disciplina | 338.4/36150973 |
| Collana | The culture and politics of health care work |
| Soggetto topico |
Health care reform - United States
Pharmaceutical industry - United States Pharmaceutical policy - United States Drug accessibility - United States Prescription pricing - United States Drugs - Prices - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-5017-1391-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466810103321 |
Quigley Fran <1962->
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| Ithaca : , : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / / Fran Quigley
| Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / / Fran Quigley |
| Autore | Quigley Fran <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca : , : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
| Disciplina | 338.4/36150973 |
| Collana | The culture and politics of health care work |
| Soggetto topico |
Health care reform - United States
Pharmaceutical industry - United States Pharmaceutical policy - United States Drug accessibility - United States Prescription pricing - United States Drugs - Prices - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-5017-1391-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910528815803321 |
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Quigley Fran <1962->
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| Ithaca : , : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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