Talk:Rockefeller Medicine Men
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.
“ 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
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.
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.
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!
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.
Also the whole John Green raising hell over Tuberculosis drugs and all that debate was neat
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
Anywho i just had to chime in on all this lol
