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  • Economics of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry

    Supply Chain, Trade and Innovation

    by Ramesh Bhardwaj ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation
    This book provides a comprehensive examination of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, including analysis of its current trade and innovation strategies.Opening with a survey of the global pharmaceutical and medical device industry, Bhardwaj outlines the growing trade and trade interdependence among countries in the global supply chain. He adopts a trade competitiveness approach to ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Determinants of Mental Health: A Socioeconomic Perspective

    by Ramesh Bhardwaj, Atul Bhardwaj ...
    About Mental and Substance Use Disorders"Risks to health do not occur in isolation. The chain of events leading to an adverse health outcome includes both proximal and distal causes – proximal factors act directly or almost directly to cause disease, and distal causes are further back in the causal chain and act via a number of intermediary causes" World Health Organization. The world health ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Sickening

    How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

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    The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health.The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. At the heart of ... Read more

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  • The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

    by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Lillian Gomory Wu ...
    The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a ... Read more

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  • Side Effects

    How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way – And How We Fix It

    by David Haslam ...
    In the shadow of the pandemic , how do we make a healthcare system that is affordable, effective and fair? With a single drug in the UK currently costing £ 340,000 per patient per year, or a gene therapy in the USA being costed at $1.2million, who should get such treatments, and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our ... Read more

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

    by Harriet A. Washington ...
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  • From Breakthrough to Blockbuster

    The Business of Biotechnology

    by Donald L. Drakeman, Lisa N. Drakeman, Nektarios Oraiopoulos ...
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  • Generic

    The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

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  • A New Deal for Cancer

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