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Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All /

"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 essential medicines -- an...

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Hlavní autor: Quigley, Fran, 1962- (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017.
Edice:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Témata:
Prescription pricing.
Pharmaceutical policy.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Health care reform.
Drugs > Prices.
Drug accessibility.
Medical policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
Politique sanitaire.
Services de sante > Reforme.
Services de sante > Reforme > États-Unis.
Industrie pharmaceutique > États-Unis.
Medicaments > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Medicaments > Accessibilite > États-Unis.
Medicaments > Prix > États-Unis.
Patient Rights
Health Policy
Health Care Reform
Drug Industry > ethics
Drug Industry > economics
Fees, Pharmaceutical > ethics
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.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
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Obsah:
  • 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.

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