An excellent piece by Leigh Phillips tying racism, Structural - TopicsExpress



          

An excellent piece by Leigh Phillips tying racism, Structural Adjustment in West Africa by the IMF, neo-liberalism and unbridled capitalism in healthcare and in the pharmaceutical industry to the Ebola crisis. John Ashton, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, wrote a vituperative opinion piece in the Independent on Sunday decrying “the scandal of the unwillingness of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in research to produce treatments and vaccines, something they refuse to do because the numbers involved are, in their terms, so small and don’t justify the investment. “This is the moral bankruptcy of capitalism acting in the absence of an ethical and social framework,” he concluded.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:41:39 +0000

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