Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany (Studies in Social Medicine) Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2004-03-15
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: B006J3X69E
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Advocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will supersede national medical practices and result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by comparing drug laws, clinical trials, and systems for monitoring adverse reactions in the United States and Germany, two countries with similarly advanced systems for medical research, testing, and patient care. Daemmrich proposes that divergent "therapeutic cultures"--the interrelationships among governments, patients, the medical profession, and the pharmaceutical industry--underlie national differences and explain variations in pharmaceutical markets and medical care. Daemmrich carries the United States-Germany comparison from 1950 to the present through case studies of Terramycin (an antibiotic), thalidomide (a sedative), propranolol (a heart medication), interleukin-2 (a cancer therapy), and in Download Pharmacopolitics for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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