Bad medicine : the prescription drug industry in the Third World / Milton Silverman, Mia Lydecker, Philip R. Lee.

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1992.

xvii, 358 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-339) and index

The patients : health for all by, when? -- Drug labeling : how safe? how deadly? -- The companies : heroes or villains? -- The great generics controversy -- The dipyrone affair -- The case of the deadly pregnancy test -- Bangladesh and the noble experiment --The drug swindlers -- So shines a good deed -- Ammunition for the consumers -- Consumer power : the Hansson/Ciba-Geigy connection -- The essential role of government -- Hard choices.