Deadly monopolies

the shocking corporate takeover of life itself, and the consequences for your health and our medical future

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Deadly monopolies

the shocking corporate takeover of life itself, and the consequences for your health and our medical future

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

"An in-depth exploration of the way the pharmaceutical industry is manipulating us and our world"--Provided by publisher.

Publish Date
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
433

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.4/76151
Library of Congress
HD9665.5 .W37 2011, HD9665.5 .W37 2011eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
433 p. :
Number of pages
433

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25094083M
Internet Archive
deadlymonopolies0000wash
ISBN 10
0385528922
ISBN 13
9780385528924
LCCN
2011013033
OCLC/WorldCat
630500030, 773578545

Work Description

Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many hospitals you must sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, even if they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is rapidly becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical- industrial complex.

Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this “life patent” gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. It examines the shaky legal, ethical, and social bases for Big Pharma’s argument that such patents are necessary to protect their investments in new drugs and treatments, arguing that they instead stifle the research, competition, and innovation that can drive down costs and save lives. In opposing the commodification of the body, Harriet Washington provides a crucial human dimension to an often all-too-abstract debate.

Like the bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Deadly Monopolies reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics. It is sure to stir debate—and instigate change.

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