The Power of Pills

Why does one-third of the global population not have access to essential medicines? What drives new drug research priorities? How do we manage the ethical, legal and social challenges associated with improving drug access? Answering these questions and more, this book is one of the first comprehensive and critical guides to global pharmaceutical policy issues.

This multidisciplinary book covers core issues in clear, short chapters. It is a one-stop resource for students, policy makers and academics. Bringing together the insights of over thirty different specialists from around the world, this book discusses:

• current regulation of the industry
• ethical issues in developing and distributing drugs
• how it prices and markets drugs
• recommendations on how to improve pharmaceutical policy
• the importance of pharmaceuticals
• the structure of the pharmaceutical industry
• what drugs are needed on a world wide scale

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Part 1: Pharmaceutical Industry, Profits and Obligations

1. The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Pursuit of Profits by Joel Lexchin
2. Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in Drug Development, Marketing and Pricing Policies: 'Setting Priorities: Pharmaceuticals as Private Organizations and the Duty to Make Money/Maximize Profits' by Kristina M. Lybecker
3. The Pharmaceutical Industry and its Obligations in the Developing World by Ann Mills, Patricia Werhane, and Michael Gorman
4. Drug Companies as Organizational Hybrids by Warren Kaplan
5. Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Symbiotic Relationship? by Ian E Marshall
6. Industry Perspectives on Equity, Access and Corporate Social Responsibility: A View from the Inside by Robert A Freeman
   Part 2: Justice Medicines as Global Public Goods
7. Pharmaceuticals, Public Health and the Law: A Public Health Perspective by W.E. Parmet
8. Access to Medications and Global Justice by David. Resnik
9. Pharmacogenetics and Global (In)Justice by Soren Holm
   Part 3: The Social, Ethical and Political Challenge: Neglected Diseases
10. The Enduring Crisis in Neglected Diseases by Nathan Ford
11. Moving Beyond Charity for R&D for Neglected Diseases by J. Orbinski and B. Burciul
12. Neglected Disease Research: Health Needs and New Models for R&D by Aidan Hollis
13. Advance Purchase Commitments: Moral and Practical Problems by Donald W. Light
14. Harnessing the Power of Pharmaceutical Innovation by Thomas Pogge
    Part 4: Patents and Access to Medicines
15. Patents, Profits, and the Price of Pills: Implications for Access and Availability by Michael J Selgelid and Eline M. Sepers
16. Fair Followers Expanding Access to Generic Pharmaceuticals for Low-Income Populations by Kevin Outterson
17. Abolishing the Product Patent: A Step Forward for Global Access to Drugs by Adam Mannan and Alan Story
18. Trading Health for Profit: Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements Affecting Domestic Intellectual Property Rules on Pharmaceuticals by Lisa Forman
    Part 5: Research Ethics å
19. Human Genomic Research Ethics: Changing the Rules by Steven H. Miles
20. Assumptions in the Standard of Care Debate by Florencia Luna
    Part 6: Political Activism and Treatment Access
21. Medicines for All? Commitment and Compromise in the Fight for
    Canada's Law on Compulsory Licensing for Export by Richard Elliot
22. Placing Access to Essential Medicine on the Human Rights Agenda by Brook K. Baker
    Part 7: National Responsibilities
23. Producing Affordable Medicines in South Africa by Joao L. Carapinha
24. National Responsibility in the Provision of Basic Medicine by Kinsley Wilson, Laura Esmail and Jillian Clare Cohen
25. Pharmaceutical Cost-Effectiveness Pricing: Developing and Protecting a Global Ideal Form by Thomas A. Faunce
    Index