“Deadly Monopolies”

Occupy Evanston’s 2nd Wednesdays Occupy Evanston Movie Series Presents: 

 “Deadly Monopolies”

An interview with medical ethicist Harriet Washington on how firms are taking over life itself

Feb 8th at 6:00 PM      

BooCoo Café

Church and Dodge (Parking free across the street in lot)

This 60-minute film is an interview on Democracy Now (Oct 31, 2011) with Harriet Washington, an eloquent and articulate interviewee, medical ethicist, and author of two books:  Deadly Monopolies and Medical Apartheid.

One of the major themes raised by the Occupy movement is the increasing power of large corporations over more and more aspects of our lives. We spend the hour looking into the issue of the corporate control of life itself. 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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