{"id":74,"date":"2006-12-28T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T11:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2006\/12\/28\/bmj-23-dec-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T12:50:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T11:50:27","slug":"bmj-23-dec-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2006\/12\/28\/bmj-23-dec-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"BMJ 23 Dec 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Revd. Thomas Malthus no doubt used to celebrate Christmas by taking food off his starving parishioners\u2019 tables, the quicker to help them die, and there is a school of economics which argues similarly &#8211; for depriving poor countries of life-saving medicines.<!--more--> But Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prizewinner for economics in 2002, is not of this persuasion, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/333\/7582\/1279\">here <\/a>argues simply and humanely for a reversal of the \u201cintellectual rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revd. Thomas Malthus no doubt used to celebrate Christmas by taking food off his starving parishioners\u2019 tables, the quicker to help them die, and there is a school of economics which argues similarly &#8211; for depriving poor countries of life-saving medicines. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2006\/12\/28\/bmj-23-dec-2006\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}