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Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future

Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future - Paperback

by Harriet A. Washington
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Availability:In StockContributor:Harriet A. WashingtonPublish date:2012-11-13Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780767931236ISBN-10:767931238UPC:9780767931236Book Category:Medical, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Ethics, Industries, Business EthicsBook Topic:Pharmaceutical & BiotechnologySize:7.98 x 5.23 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC1PK9HSBC

From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an expos 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780767931236ISBN-10:767931238UPC:9780767931236Book Category:Medical, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Ethics, Industries, Business EthicsBook Topic:Pharmaceutical & BiotechnologySize:7.98 x 5.23 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC1PK9HSBC

Harriet A. Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2007 PEN Oakland Award, and the 2007 American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award. She has been a fellow in medical ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.


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