TY  - BOOK
AU  - Quigley,Fran
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Prescription for the People : : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / 
T2  - The culture and politics of health care work
SN  - 9781501713927
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
KW  - Prescription pricing
KW  - fast
KW  - Pharmaceutical policy
KW  - Pharmaceutical industry
KW  - Health care reform
KW  - Drugs
KW  - Prices
KW  - Drug accessibility
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Disease & Health Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Process
KW  - Political Advocacy
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Politique sanitaire
KW  - Services de sante
KW  - Reforme
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Industrie pharmaceutique
KW  - Medicaments
KW  - Politique gouvernementale
KW  - Accessibilite
KW  - Prix
KW  - Patient Rights
KW  - Health Care Reform
KW  - Drug Industry
KW  - ethics
KW  - economics
KW  - Fees, Pharmaceutical
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - "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 -- and a primer on how to make that change happen."--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/56377/
ER  -