Book Launch: Pharmanomics by Nick Dearden

We are delighted to host director of Global Justice Now (GJN), Nick Dearden, who will be speaking about his new book, Pharmanomics, which digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences. Big Pharma is more interested in profit than health. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic. Behind the much-trumpeted scientific breakthroughs, major companies found new ways of gouging billions from governments in the West while abandoning the Global South. But this is only the latest episode in a long history of financialising medicine - from Purdue's rapacious marketing of highly addictive OxyContin, through Martin Shkreli's hiking the price of a lifesaving drug, to the 4.5 million South Africans needlessly deprived of HIV/AIDS medication. Since the 1990s, Big Pharma has gone out of its way to protect its property through the patent system. As a result, the business has focused not on researching new medicines but on building monopolies. This system has helped restructure our economy away from invention and production in order to benefit financial markets. It has fundamentally reshaped the relationship between richer and poorer countries, as the access to new medicines and the permission to manufacture them is ruthlessly policed. In response, Dearden offers a pathway to a fairer, safer system for all. This event is free, but please email dundee@waterstones.com or speak to a bookseller in store to reserve your place. Information published by Leisure and Culture Dundee.

Time	Friday, November 10, 2023 - 18:30
Venue	Waterstones
Event Contact URL	http://www.waterstones.com/events/book-launch-pharmanomics-by-nick-dearden/dundee
Booking required	Yes
Event Link	https://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event/32250