Capitalizing a Cure - How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Victor Roy
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780520388710
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38871-0
• Pagine: 245
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 13 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Public Health, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Public health & preventive medicine, Industry & industrial studies, Manufacturing industries, Health systems & services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Public health and preventive medicine, Health systems and services, Industry and industrial studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Healthcare