Prescription for the people
Subtitle: an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all
By: Fran Quigley
Series: The culture and politics of health care work; Culture and politics of health care work
Publisher: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781501713750
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry; Prices; Drug accessibility; Pharmaceutical policy; Drugs; Health care reform; Prescription pricing
Other titles: Rx :
Description: "In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U. S. approach to developing and providing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines -- and a primer on how to make that change happen." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: People everywhere are struggling to get the medicines they need; title: The United States has a drug problem; title: Millions of people are dying needlessly; title: Cancer patients face particularly deadly barriers to medicines; title: The current medicine system neglects many major diseases; title: Corporate research and development investments are exaggerated; title: The current system wastes billions on drug marketing; title: The current system compromises physician integrity and leads to unethical corporate behavior; title: Medicines are priced at whatever the market will bear; title: Pharmaceutical corporations reap history-making profits; title: The for-profit medicine arguments are patently false; title: Medicine patents are extended too far and too wide; title: Patent protectionism stunts the development of new medicines; title: Governments, not private corporations, drive medicine innovation; title: Taxpayers and patients pay twice for patented medicines; title: Medicines are a public good; title: Medicine patents are artificial, recent, and government-created; title: The United States and big pharma play the bully in extending patents; title: Pharma-pushed trade agreements steal the power of democratically elected governments; title: Current law provides opportunities for affordable generic medicines; title: There is a better way to develop medicines; title: Human rights law demands access to essential medicines.