Deadly Monopolies The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.【電子書籍】[ Harriet A. Washington ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From the award-winning author of ＜em＞Medical Apartheid＜/em＞, an expos? of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of lifeーincluding yours.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Deadly Monopolies＜/em＞ 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. It examines the shaky legal, ethical, and social bases for Big Pharma’s argument that such patents are necessary to protect their investments in ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る