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Bad Medicine : The Prescription Drug Industry in the Third World /

The pharmaceutical industry has long and vehemently insisted that it has the willingness, the dedication, and the ability to police itself to insure that the public will not be unnecessarily harmed or defrauded. As the record shows with painful clarity, however, virtually no industry or professional...

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Autores principales: Silverman, Milton (Autor), Lee, Philip R. (Autor), Lydecker, Mia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • A Note About the Authors
  • 1. THE PATIENTS: HEALTH FOR ALL BY-WHEN?
  • 2. DRuG LABELING: How SAFE? How DEADLY?
  • 3. THE COMPANIES: HEROES OR VILLAINS?
  • 4. THE GREAT GENERics CoNTROVERSY
  • 5. THE DIPYRONE AFFAIR
  • 6. THE CASE OF THE DEADLY PREGNANCY TEST
  • 7. BANGLADESH AND THE NOBLE EXPERIMENT
  • 8. THE DRUG SWINDLERS
  • 9. So SHINES A GooD DEED
  • 10. AMMUNITION FOR THE CoNsUMERS
  • 11. CoNSUMER PowER: THE HANSSONICIBA-GEIGY CoNNECTION
  • 12. THE EssENTIAL RoLE OF GovERNMENT
  • 13. HARD CHOICES
  • Appendix: Tables of Product Indications, Contraindications, and Warnings
  • References
  • Index