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Author Silverman, Milton, 1910-1997

Title Bad medicine : the prescription drug industry in the Third World / Milton Silverman, Mia Lydecker, Philip R. Lee.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1992]
©1992

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  338.4761 S587B    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 358 pages ; ; 24 cm
Contents The patients : health for all by, when? -- Drug labeling : how safe? how deadly? -- The companies : heroes or villains? -- The great generics controversy -- The dipyrone affair -- The case of the deadly pregnancy test -- Bangladesh and the noble experiment --The drug swindlers -- So shines a good deed -- Ammunition for the consumers -- Consumer power : the Hansson/Ciba-Geigy connection -- The essential role of government -- Hard choices.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Pharmaceutical industry -- Developing countries.
Pharmaceutical policy -- Developing countries.
Added Author Lydecker, Mia, 1926-
Lee, Philip R. (Philip Randolph), 1924-
ISBN 0804716692 cloth alkaline paper $30.00
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