Deadly monopolies : the shocking corporate takeover of life itself, and the consequences for your health and our medical future. / Harriet A. Washington.
2011
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Author
Title
Deadly monopolies : the shocking corporate takeover of life itself, and the consequences for your health and our medical future. / Harriet A. Washington.
Published
New York : Doubleday, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Call Number
HD9665.5 .W37 2011
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780385528924 (hardback : alk. paper)
0385528922 (hardback : alk. paper)
0385528922 (hardback : alk. paper)
Description
433 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)630500030
Summary
"An in-depth exploration of the way the pharmaceutical industry is manipulating us and our world"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-407) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Patents, Profits, and the High Cost of Living
1
ch. 1
A New Lease on Life
11
ch. 2
The High Cost of Living
52
ch. 3
Hitting The Brakes
94
ch. 4
Poison Pills
128
ch. 5
Gene Patents
180
ch. 6
Liquid Assets, Lethal Risks
206
ch. 7
A Traffic in Tissues
234
ch. 8
Biocolonialism
265
ch. 9
The Laboratory of the West
300
Epilogue: Back to the Future?
326
Acknowledgments
347
Notes
351
Bibliography
391
Permissions Acknowledgments
409
Index
411