The big pharmaceutical firms are 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 while abandoning the global south. But this is only the latest episode in a long history of financialising medicine.
Nick Dearden, our Director, has written a book, Pharmanomics, about this and what a pharmaceutical industry could look like.
We were excited that Nick came to Nottingham to talk about his research and signing copies of the book at Five Leaves in central Nottingham.
