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| Title: | Deadly monopolies : the shocking corporate takeover of life itself, and the consequences for your health and our medical future. / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harriet A Washington |
| ISBN: | 9780385528924 (hardback : alk. paper); 0385528922 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index. Content: Introduction: Patents, profits, and the high cost of living -- A new lease on life --The high cost of living -- Hitting the brakes -- Poison pills -- Gene patents -- Liquid assets, lethal risks -- A traffic in tissues -- Biocolonialism -- The laboratory of the west -- Epilogue: Back to the future? |
| Description: | 433 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Patents, profits, and the high cost of living -- A new lease on life --The high cost of living -- Hitting the brakes -- Poison pills -- Gene patents -- Liquid assets, lethal risks -- A traffic in tissues -- Biocolonialism -- The laboratory of the west -- Epilogue: Back to the future? |
| Responsibility: | Harriet A. Washington. |
| Year: | c2011. |
| Publisher: | New York : Doubleday, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2011013033; National Library: 101557212; National Library: 015859938 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HD9665.5; Dewey No.: 338.4/76151 |
| OCLC No.: | 630500030 |
Abstract:
"An in-depth exploration of the way the pharmaceutical industry is manipulating us and our world"--Provided by publisher.
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