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| Who Owns Our Health By Thomas Alured Faunce - Fri 21 Mar 2008 | |
| Please come along to the launch of
WHO OWNS OUR HEALTH Medical Professionalism, Law & Leadership in the Age of the Market State by Thomas Alured Faunce Launched by Dr Helen Watchirs ACT Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner. Thursday March 20 5.45 for 6.00pm RSVP Wednesday March 19 Telephone 6295 6723 or email events@paperchainbookstore.com.au about the book Who Owns Our Health is an important new book that looks at Australia's health-care system. The book explores the consequences for our medical profession as the global health-care and pharmaceutical corporations progressively implement a strategy to fully privatise health service delivery and access to medical systems in Australia, as well as through the rest of the developed world and in many rapidly developing Third World countries. The book describes very effective lobbying tools developed by the industry. These include multi- and bilateral trade agreements, such as the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, that enhance intellectual monopoly privileges, as well as industry-sponsored economic analyses, captured political systems, and 'user-pays' changes in professional education. All of these developments have been assisted by a compliant mass media. "Who owns our health?" then considers the implications of such corporate sovereignty over the global burden of disease and wider societal values, as well as related potential leadership roles for health professionals, health regulators and policy-makers.This ongoing push for the complete privatisation of health care is deeply unpopular with most medical consumers, and with most of the medical profession, but it continues to gather pace right around the world. |
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