Reviews
Advance Praise for Deadly Monopolies : "Harriet Washington shines her relentless torch into the darkest corners of Big Pharma with courage, dedication and accuracy." -John le Carr "Big Pharma is not going to like Deadly Monopolies one bit, but you probably will-especially if, like most Americans, you're finding the co-pay on your drugs too much to handle. Washington correctly reminds us that, as hard as high drug costs are in the USA, they are lethal for the world's poor. Brava Harriet Washington!" -Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks "Patents, we're repeatedly told, are crucial to fostering innovation. Deadly Monopolies reveals how the privatization of medical science is retarding research, putting patients at risk, and making what cures we have exorbitantly expensive. This book is a meticulously documented expos of what's gone wrong with our medical innovation system, and a roadmap for change." -Merrill Goozner, author of The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind The Cost of New Drugs Praise for Harriet A. Washington's Medical Apartheid : "An important book. The disgraceful history it details is a reminder that people in power have always been capable of exploiting those they regard as 'other.'" - New York Times "A fresh account of the Tuskegee study, including new information, lies at the center of Harriet A. Washington's courageous and poignant book. Washington sheds light on how our understanding of what constitutes medical research requires broadening in the face of new developments in genetic science." - Washington Post Book Review " Medical Apartheid is fascinating and compelling . . . The book's analysis challenges the reader to question established paradigms in the history of medicine. -Dr. Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University, in Social History of Medicine "Groundbreaking . . . Washington is a great storyteller, and in addition to giving us an abundance of information on 'scientific racism' the book, even at its most distressing, is compulsively readable . . . Paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex, and the abuse of power." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One of [Washington's] goals in writing this book, aside from documenting a shameful past, is to convince [African Americans] that they must participate actively in therapeutic medical research . . . while remaining ever alert to possible abuses . . . Sweeping and powerful." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review), Praise for Harriet A. Washington's Medical Apartheid : "An important book. The disgraceful history it details is a reminder that people in power have always been capable of exploiting those they regard as 'other.'" - New York Times "A fresh account of the Tuskegee study, including new information, lies at the center of Harriet A. Washington's courageous and poignant book. Washington sheds light on how our understanding of what constitutes medical research requires broadening in the face of new developments in genetic science." - Washington Post Book Review " Medical Apartheid is fascinating and compelling . . . The book's analysis challenges the reader to question established paradigms in the history of medicine. -Dr. Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University, in Social History of Medicine "Groundbreaking . . . Washington is a great storyteller, and in addition to giving us an abundance of information on 'scientific racism' the book, even at its most distressing, is compulsively readable . . . Paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex, and the abuse of power." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One of [Washington's] goals in writing this book, aside from documenting a shameful past, is to convince [African Americans] that they must participate actively in therapeutic medical research . . . while remaining ever alert to possible abuses . . . Sweeping and powerful." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the Hardcover edition., Advance Praise for Deadly Monopolies : "Big Pharma is not going to like Deadly Monopolies one bit, but you probably will-especially if, like most Americans, you're finding the co-pay on your drugs too much to handle. Washington correctly reminds us that, as hard as high drug costs are in the USA, they are lethal for the world's poor. Brava Harriet Washington!" -Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks "Patents, we're repeatedly told, are crucial to fostering innovation. Deadly Monopolies reveals how the privatization of medical science is retarding research, putting patients at risk, and making what cures we have exorbitantly expensive. This book is a meticulously documented expos of what's gone wrong with our medical innovation system, and a roadmap for change." -Merrill Goozner, author of The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind The Cost of New Drugs Praise for Harriet A. Washington's Medical Apartheid : "An important book. The disgraceful history it details is a reminder that people in power have always been capable of exploiting those they regard as 'other.'" - New York Times "A fresh account of the Tuskegee study, including new information, lies at the center of Harriet A. Washington's courageous and poignant book. Washington sheds light on how our understanding of what constitutes medical research requires broadening in the face of new developments in genetic science." - Washington Post Book Review " Medical Apartheid is fascinating and compelling . . . The book's analysis challenges the reader to question established paradigms in the history of medicine. -Dr. Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University, in Social History of Medicine "Groundbreaking . . . Washington is a great storyteller, and in addition to giving us an abundance of information on 'scientific racism' the book, even at its most distressing, is compulsively readable . . . Paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex, and the abuse of power." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One of [Washington's] goals in writing this book, aside from documenting a shameful past, is to convince [African Americans] that they must participate actively in therapeutic medical research . . . while remaining ever alert to possible abuses . . . Sweeping and powerful." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
