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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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The culture and politics of health care work
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Culture and politics of health care work.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 ... |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
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Drugs -- Prices -- United States.
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Drugs -- Prices. |
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United States. |
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Prescription pricing -- United States.
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Prescription pricing. |
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Drug accessibility -- United States.
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Drug accessibility. |
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Pharmaceutical policy -- United States.
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Pharmaceutical policy. |
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Pharmaceutical industry -- United States.
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Health care reform -- United States.
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Pharmaceutical industry. |
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Health care reform.
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Medical policy.
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Health care reform. |
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United States. |
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Medical policy. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Medication. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Quigley, Fran, 1962- Prescription for the people. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501713750 (DLC) 2017020499 |
| ISBN |
9781501713927 (epub/mobi) |
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1501713922 |
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9781501713910 (pdf) |
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1501713914 |
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1501713752 |
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9781501713750 |
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9781501713750 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781501713910 |
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