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Power, politics and pharmaceuticals ; drug regulation in Ireland in the global context / edited by Orla O'Donovan and Kathy Glavanis-Grantham.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--Law and legislation.
- Drugs.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Globalisation, Power and the Politics of Science
- Chapter 1 Globalisation and Pharmaceuticals: Where Is the Power? Where to Resist? / Denis O'Hearn, Stephen McCloskey 9
- Chapter 2 The Pharmaceutical Industry and the World Trade Organisation's TRIPs Agreement: Intellectual Property, Global Governance and Health / Gerard Downes 27
- Chapter 3 Bias and Science in Knowledge Production: Implications for the Politics of Drug Regulation / John Abraham 43
- Part 2 Medicines Regulation in Ireland: Health and Democracy at Risk?
- Chapter 4 The Emergence of Pharmaceutical Industry Regulation for Competition (aka Profit) in Ireland / Orla O'Donovan 61
- Chapter 5 Alliance for Progress or Unholy Alliance? The Transnational Pharmaceutical Industry, the State and the University in Ireland / Kathy Glavanis-Grantham 82
- Chapter 6 Drug Expenditure in Ireland: Explaining Recent Trends / Michael Barry, Lesley Tilson, Mairin Ryan 105
- Chapter 7 The Medical Profession and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Entwined, Entangled or Ensnared? / Colin Bradley 117
- Chapter 8 The Dominance of Drug-Based Mental Health Care in Ireland: A Personal Account of a General Practitioner Turned Psychotherapist / Terry Lynch 135
- Part 3 Controversy and Change: Medicines Regulation in Canada, Britain and Australia
- Chapter 9 New Directions in Canadian Drug Regulation: Whose Interests are Being Served? / Joel Lexchin 153
- Chapter 10 Turbulence in UK Medicines Regulation: A Stink about SSRI Antidepressants that Isn't Going Away / Andrew Herxheimer 171
- Chapter 11 Is Australia's National Medicines Policy Failing? The Case of COX-2 Inhibitors / Agnes Vitry, Joel Lexchin, Peter R. Mansfield 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781859184196
- 1859184197
- OCLC:
- 123114674
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