Name: Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and our Medical Future (en Inglés)
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Author: Washington, Harriet A.
ISBN: 9780767931236

portada Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and our Medical Future (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Harriet A. Washington

Editorial

Anchor Books

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

433

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3 x 13.3 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.33 kg.

ISBN

0767931238

ISBN13

9780767931236

Categorías

Ética empresarial
La industria farmacéutica
Ética médica y conducta profesional

Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and our Medical Future (en Inglés)

Harriet A. Washington (Autor) · Anchor Books · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and our Medical Future (en Inglés)"

From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life--including yours. Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many hospitals you must sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, even if they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is rapidly becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical-industrial complex. Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this "life patent" gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. Like the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics.