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Author Washington, Harriet A.

Title Deadly monopolies : the shocking corporate takeover of life itself, and the consequences for your health and our medical future. / Harriet A. Washington.

Imprint New York : Doubleday, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  338.476151 W277d  2011    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 433 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "An in-depth exploration of the way the pharmaceutical industry is manipulating us and our world"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction: Patents, profits, and the high cost of living -- A new lease on life --The high cost of living -- Hitting the brakes -- Poison pills -- Gene patents -- Liquid assets, lethal risks -- A traffic in tissues -- Biocolonialism -- The laboratory of the west -- Epilogue: Back to the future?
Subject Drugs -- Marketing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Economic aspects.
Drug Industry -- ethics.
Patents as Topic -- ethics.
Drug Industry -- economics.
ISBN 9780385528924 (hardback : alk. paper)
0385528922 (hardback : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLM 101557212
NZ1 14025787

 
    
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