[e-drug] Books on Pills (3)

["Mira Shiva" <mirashiva@yahoo.com>]

E-DRUG: Books on Pills (3)
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[Thank you Jude for starting this thread. Dr Mira Shiva has added some more and the moderator could not restrain herself - see below.  More contributions would be welcome and we will have developed a nice bibliography.  BS]

Dear Peter , 
 
 So good to hear about the books on Drugs that mattered to us. You have triggered some of my grey cells & memory cells into action .

 I would like to add to your list of books that made a lot of difference to those of us engaged in Rational Drug Movement since late 1970's
  
Bitter Pills by Diana Melrose
 
Prescription for Death by Dr Milton Silverman

Inside Ciba Geigy  Dr Olle Hansson
   (Incidently 24th May is commemorated  by the Drug activists in India as Dr Olle Hansson Day -hazardous Drugs Day, this year we are planning to focus on Hazardous Action  by NOVARTIS in the GLIVIC Case in INDIA               )
  
Adam's vs Roche  by Stanly Adams

There is gold in them thar pills  Allan Klass 
  
Insult or Injury Charles Medawar.
   
  These books left such deep impact & influenced the nature of work of many .
  They were more than books . People who wrote them were more than authors .
  With regards 
   
       Dr Mira Shiva
   All Idia Drug Action Network 
  Initiative for Health , Equity & Society 
    A 60 Hauz Khas 
       New Delhi 
         110016
Mira Shiva <mirashiva@yahoo.com>

[Thank you Mira.  As you say people who wrote them were more than authors and on th moderator's shelf also 

The Great Health Robbery by Dianna Melrose, Oxfam 1981
The Health of Nations by Mike Muller, Faber and FAber, 1982
Drug Diplomacy by Charles Medawar and Barbara Freese, Social Audit 1982
Drugs and World Health by Charles Medawar, Social Audit 1984
Adverse Effects - Women and the Pharmaceutical Industry ed.  Kathleen McConnell, International Organisation of Consumer Unions, 1986
A Healthy Business? World Health and the Pharmaceutical Industry by Andrew Chetley, 1990, Zed Books 

and more recently and very important
Kanji N, Hardon A, Mamdani M, Walt G.  1992.  Drugs policy in developing countries.  London: Zed Books.

Chowdhury Z.  1995.  The politics of essential drugs.  The makings of a successful health strategy:  lessons from Bangladesh.  London: Zed Books/Dag Hammarskjold Foundation.

Beverley Snell, Moderator]