Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health Dearden Nick
Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health Dearden Nick In Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is…
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Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health Dearden Nick
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. Behind the much-trumpeted scientific breakthroughs, major companies found new ways of gouging billions from governments in the West while abandoning the Global South. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic.
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