| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in social medicine
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Studies in social medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-197) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: medicine, politics, and governance -- Drug laws and therapeutic cultures -- Clinical trials from treatment to test, 1950-1980 -- Clinical trials as test and therapy, 1980-2000 -- Configuring the market as a testing site. |
| Summary |
Advocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by comparing drug laws, clinical trials and monitoring systems in the US and Germany. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pharmaceutical policy -- United States.
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Pharmaceutical policy. |
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United States. |
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Pharmaceutical policy -- Germany.
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Germany. |
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Drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Drugs -- Law and legislation. |
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Drugs -- Law and legislation -- Germany.
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Legislation, Drug. |
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Clinical Trials as Topic. |
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Government Regulation. |
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International Cooperation. |
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Pharmaceutical Preparations. |
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Germany. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Medication. |
| Added Title |
Drug regulation in the United States and Germany |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Daemmrich, Arthur A. Pharmacopolitics. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004 0807828440 (DLC) 2003016296 (OCoLC)52720931 |
| ISBN |
0807863394 (electronic book) |
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9780807863398 (electronic book) |
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