Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
Für diesen Artikel ist leider kein Bild verfügbar.

Capitalizing a Cure

How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
245 Seiten
2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38871-0 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Capitalizing a Cure takes readers into the struggle over a medical breakthrough to investigate the power of finance over business, biomedicine, and public health. When curative treatments for hepatitis C launched in 2013, sticker shock over their prices intensified the global debate over access to new medicines. Weaving historical research with insights from political economy and science and technology studies, Victor Roy demystifies an oft-missed dynamic in this debate: the reach of financialized capitalism into how medicines are made, priced, and valued.
 
Roy’s account moves between public and private labs, Wall Street and corporate board rooms, and public health meetings and health centers to trace the ways in which curative medicines became financial assets dominated by strategies of speculation and extraction at the expense of access and care. Provocative and sobering, this book illuminates the harmful impact of allowing financial markets to determine who heals and who suffers and points to the necessary work of building more equitable futures. 
 

Victor Roy, MD, PhD, is a family physician, sociologist, and a fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 8 illustrations
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Allgemeines / Lexika
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik
ISBN-10 0-520-38871-2 / 0520388712
ISBN-13 978-0-520-38871-0 / 9780520388710
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Die Geschichte eines Weltzentrums der Medizin von 1710 bis zur …

von Gerhard Jaeckel; Günter Grau

Buch | Softcover (2021)
Lehmanns Media (Verlag)
CHF 27,90
Krankheitslehren, Irrwege, Behandlungsformen

von Heinz Schott; Rainer Tölle

Buch | Softcover (2024)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 55,90