Description
| Product ID: | 9781804291450 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Pharmanomics |
| Subtitle: | How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health |
| Authors: | Author: Nick Dearden |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Monopolies, Monopolies, Chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, Manufacturing industries, Patents law, Regulation of medicines and medical devices, Medical research, Popular medicine and health, Child care and upbringing: advice for parents, Chemical industries, Pharmaceutical industries, Patents law, Regulation of medicines & medical devices, Medical research, Popular medicine & health, Child care & upbringing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating How Big Pharma failed to end a pandemic, and what it tells us about the global economy In Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences. Big Pharma is more interested in profit than health. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic. Behind the much-trumpeted scientific breakthroughs, major companies found new ways of gouging billions from governments in the West while abandoning the Global South. But this is only the latest episode in a long history of financialising medicine—from Purdue’s rapacious marketing of highly addictive OxyContin through Martin Shkreli’s hiking the price of a lifesaving drug to the 4.5 million South Africans needlessly deprived of HIV/AIDS medication. Since the 1990s, Big Pharma has gone out of its way to protect its property through the patent system. As a result, the business has focused not on researching new medicines but on building monopolies. This system has helped restructure our economy away from invention and production in order to benefit financial markets. It has fundamentally reshaped the relationship between richer and poorer countries, as the access to new medicines and the permission to manufacture them is ruthlessly policed. In response, Dearden offers a pathway to a fairer, safer system for all. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-03 |