Deadly Monopolies: Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms Are Taking Over Life
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 21 November 2011
by Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service
(8-min Interview) Our guest, Harriet Washington, is a medical ethicist and has just published a book that examines the extent to which what she calls the medical-industrial complex has come to control human life. In the past 30 years, more than 40,000 patents have been granted on genes alone — many more patents are pending. Washington argues that the biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies patenting these genes are more concerned with profit than with the health or medical needs of patients. Her new book is called, “Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself — And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.”
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