[e-drug] Books on Pills (2)

["Peter Mansfield" <peter.mansfield@adelaide.edu.au>]

E-DRUG: Books on Pills (2)
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Jude,

Here is another new book to add to your list that I think is one of the best of the recent harvest:

Howard Brody. Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Rowman & Lanham: Littlefield 2007

However don't forget the classics:

Virginia Beardshaw. Prescription for Change. The Hague: IOCU 1983

John Braithwaite. Corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1984

Arthur Hailey. Strong Medicine. London: Pan 1984 (Fiction but perhaps the most accurate insight into the inner workings
of drug companies of all the books.)

Charles Medawar. Power and dependence: Social Audit on the safety of medicines. 1992

regards,

Peter

Dr Peter Mansfield
GP
Director, Healthy Skepticism Inc
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