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Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself–And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future

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From the award-winning creator of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.
 
Think your body is your own to keep an eye on and eliminate as you want? Think again. The US Patent Place of job has granted no less than 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 will have to sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, although they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is all of a sudden becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical-industrial complex.
 
Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this “life patent” gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. Like the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics.

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