Roy, Victor

Capitalizing a cure : how finance controls the price and value of medicines / Victor Roy - 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the politics of drug pricing and the value of a cure Capitalizing science : public knowledge into pharmaceutical assets Capitalizing drugs : shareholder power and the cannibalizing company Capitalizing health : the struggle over value and treatment access From financialization to public purpose for health Conclusion : reckoning with pharmaceutical value in crisis times

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Pharmaceutical industry--Economic aspects--United States
Drugs--Prices--United States
Drug development--Economic aspects--United States

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