Deadly Monopolies
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Deadly Monopolies by Harriet A Washington
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.
Harriet A. Washington has worked as a Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Harvard Medical School Research Fellow in Medical Ethics, a senior research fellow at Tuskegee University's National Center for Bioethics, and a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law. She has had fellowships at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Stanford University with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health A Horrible Thing to Waste, Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which earned the National Book Critics Circle Prize, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award, is her first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780767931236 |
| ISBN 10 | 0767931238 |
| Title | Deadly Monopolies |
| Author | Harriet A Washington |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2012-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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