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Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health

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By (author): Nick Dearden

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. See more
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  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781804291450

About Nick Dearden

Nick Dearden is the Director of Global Justice Now. He has been a campaigner against corporate globalisation and for global economic justice for over twenty years working with War on Want Amnesty International and the Jubilee Debt Campaign. He has been a leading voice in the campaign for a People's Vaccine and a key organiser against neolib- eral trade deals including the abandoned EU/US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). He regularly contributes political analysis to publications including the Guardian Al Jazeera openDemocracy Red Pepper and Soundings.

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