https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Talk%3ARockefeller_Medicine_Men 2026-04-22T12:58:10Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.13 https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rockefeller_Medicine_Men&diff=302589&oldid=prev 2024-12-17T16:06:07Z

<p>Added some thoughts of mine</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Waiting for a work truck to get worked on, so was checking what all’s going on on the wiki, saw this and “/$3)3” sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole.<br /> <br /> “ [[Epidemiological transition]] “ ties into topics from ol’ AP [[Human Geography]] and is right up my alley so reading up on that is a neat bit to add to my to-do’s<br /> <br /> The additional ages mentioned (with us currently being in the “Age of Aspired Quality of Life with Persistent Inequalities” ) has me intrigued too especially with the [[Longevity]] / [[Healthspan]] / [[Life Extension]] stuff although that stuff gets a good bit off ose topic it REALLY is interesting to me! (Heard about another person having (so far) successful xenotransplantation of a kidney so really interesting times. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> All in all though main thing is just healthcare access. I can grab the links but one channel has been doing an amazing bit on Medical History, with the Discovery of Antiseptics, Anesthesia, and ESPECIALLY [[Penicillin]] (and the history of pharmaceutical industry/biomedical research and all that.<br /> <br /> Turns out “[[Ethical Drug Makers]]” (historical term) were basically anti-“Patent Medicine” which I understood was the whole “snake oil” type deal ALTHOUGH some people were also anti-patents and sort of proto-Open Source snobs!<br /> <br /> The presenter seemed pretty anti-patent too and they were going over that ALTHOUGH expensive medical research is a whole major policy bit to be sorted out and while 100% used by lobbyists to keep predatory monopolies in place at the same time it is a valid issue.<br /> <br /> Also the whole [[John Green]] raising hell over Tuberculosis drugs and all that debate was neat<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> A good chunk of the solution is government action/regulation (and international treaties etc) at the end of the day, but it DOES intersect with [[Open Source Activism]] and all that too<br /> <br /> Anywho i just had to chime in on all this lol<br /> <br /> --[[User:Eric|Eric]] ([[User talk:Eric|talk]]) 16:05, 17 December 2024 (UTC)</div>

Eric