Phake : the deadly world of falsified and substandard medicines / Roger Bate.
By: Bate, Roger.
Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2012Description: xxvi, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0844772321 (cloth); 084477233X (paper); 0844772348 (ebook); 9780844772325 (cloth); 9780844772332 (paper); 9780844772349 (ebook).Subject(s): Drug adulteration | Drug traffic | Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices | Product counterfeiting | Counterfeit Drugs | Fraud | Drug and Narcotic Control | Drug Industry | InternationalityGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 364.16/68Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | HD9665.5 .B38 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000002932 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The Deadly World of Dangerous Medicines -- Historical Examples of Dangerous Medicines -- Understanding the Problem -- Overview of Research Findings and Possible Solutions -- Part II: Dangerous Drug Problems by Location -- Africa -- India -- China -- Middle East -- Other Emerging Markets -- Russia -- Latin America -- Thailand -- Turkey -- The Online Drug Market -- Part III: Drug-Quality Assessments -- Factors to Consider for Research -- Results: What We Found -- Results Broken Out for Africa, India, and Other Markets -- Interpreting the Results -- Part IV: The Way Forward -- Developing Medical Regulatory Authorities: The U.S. FDA as Case Study -- International Cooperation against Criminals and the Lethal Trade in Fake Medicines -- Market for Products of Varying Quality and the Intellectual Property Debate This Book.
"Drug trade, pharmaceutical industry, counterfeit drugs, product counterfeiting"--Provided by publisher.