The Resource 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
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The item Prescription for the people : an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all, Fran Quigley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- 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 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." --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 243 pages
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781501713750
- Label
- Prescription for the people : an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all
- Title
- Prescription for the people
- Title remainder
- an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all
- Statement of responsibility
- Fran Quigley
- Subject
-
- Drug accessibility
- Drug accessibility -- United States
- Drugs -- Prices
- Drugs -- Prices -- United States
- Fees, Pharmaceutical -- ethics
- Health Care Reform
- Health Policy
- Health care reform
- Health care reform -- United States
- MEDICAL / Health Policy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy
- Patient Rights
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry -- United States
- Pharmaceutical policy
- Pharmaceutical policy -- United States
- Prescription pricing
- Prescription pricing -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Drug Industry -- economics
- Drug Industry -- ethics
- Language
- eng
- 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 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." --
- Assigning source
- Back cover
- Cataloging source
- NIC/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Quigley, Fran
- Dewey number
- 338.4/36150973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HD9666.4
- LC item number
- .Q54 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2017 I-760
- QV 736 AA1
- Series statement
- The culture and politics of health care work
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Drugs
- Prescription pricing
- Drug accessibility
- Pharmaceutical policy
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Health care reform
- Fees, Pharmaceutical
- Drug Industry
- Drug Industry
- Health Care Reform
- Health Policy
- Patient Rights
- United States
- United States
- Drug accessibility
- Drugs
- Health care reform
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmaceutical policy
- Prescription pricing
- United States
- MEDICAL / Health Policy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
- Label
- Prescription for the people : an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all, Fran Quigley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-236) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 981116453
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 243 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501713750
- Lccn
- 2017020499
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981116453
- Label
- Prescription for the people : an activist's guide to making medicine affordable for all, Fran Quigley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-236) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 981116453
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 243 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501713750
- Lccn
- 2017020499
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981116453
Subject
- Drug accessibility
- Drug accessibility -- United States
- Drugs -- Prices
- Drugs -- Prices -- United States
- Fees, Pharmaceutical -- ethics
- Health Care Reform
- Health Policy
- Health care reform
- Health care reform -- United States
- MEDICAL / Health Policy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy
- Patient Rights
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry -- United States
- Pharmaceutical policy
- Pharmaceutical policy -- United States
- Prescription pricing
- Prescription pricing -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Drug Industry -- economics
- Drug Industry -- ethics
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