[e-drug] Books on Pills (6)

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Dear Jude, Peter, Mira, and Alan,

Great idea and very good choices so far. I offer:

HG Wells, Tono-Bungay, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1908.

Henry Lennard, Mystification and Drug Misuse, San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1971.

Peter Conrad & Joseph W Schneider, Deviance and Medicalization: From
Badness to Sickness, St Louis: Mosby, 1980.

Peter Temin, Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the US, Harvard
Univ Press, 1980.

Peter Davis (ed), Contested Ground: Public Concern and Private Interest
in the Regulation of Pharmaceuticals, Oxford Univ Press, 1996.

Arthur Daemmrich, Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the US and
Germany, Univ North Carolina Press, 2004.

Dates are first printings; some have been reprinted more recently.

And given the old adage, "Those who do not know their opponent's
arguments do not completely understand their own," I offer the following
book:

Patricia Danzon, Pharmaceutical Price Regulation: National Policies
versus Global Interests, Amer Enterprise Institute, 1997.

Michael Montagne, PhD

Professor of Social Pharmacy
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
School of Pharmacy - Boston
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
179 Longwood Ave
Boston MA 02115
phone: 617-732-2995
email: michael.montagne@mcphs.edu

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Let me add in some of my old favourites:

Milton Silverman and Philip Lee. Pills profits and politics. University of
California Press, 1974

Henning Sjöström and Robert Nilsson. Thalidomide and the power of the drug
companies. Penguin, 1972

Joel
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Joel Lexchin MD
121 Walmer Rd.
Toronto ON
Canada M5R 2X8
Tel: 416-964-7186
Fax: 416-736-5227
E mail: joel.lexchin@utoronto.ca

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[It is time for the moderator to put the titles all together so we can see where we are up to. We will share the list next week. BS]

A minute after I sent my first list of classic books I was kicking myself for not including more.

All of my favourites about drugs have now been mentioned except 5:

A prophesy of the use of drugs for political control by keeping the population feeling content:
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World 1932

Evidence based medicine for the general public:
Judy Irwig, Les Irwig & Melissa Sweet. Smart Health Choices. Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1999

Jeffrey Robinson. Prescription Games. Toronto: McCelland & Stewart 2001

Ray Moynihan. Too much medicine. Sydney: ABC Books 2001

Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels. Selling Sickness. Sydney: Allen & Unwin 2005 (mentioned by Jude but without the second
author.)

regards,

Peter

Dr Peter Mansfield
GP
Director, Healthy Skepticism Inc
Countering misleading drug promotion.
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