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Author Melrose, Dianna, author

Title Bitter pills : medicines and the Third World poor / by Dianna Melrose
Published Oxford : Oxfam, 1982
©1982

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 WATERFT HEALTH  615.10688 Mel/Bpm  AVAILABLE
Description 277 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 21 cm
Contents 1. A pill for all ills? -- 2. Unequal distribution -- 3. Producers' market -- 4. Poor value for the poor? - drug prices -- 5. Information or misinformation? - drug promotion -- 6. Buyers beware - uncontrolled sales and problem drugs -- 7. Traditional medicine -- 8. Trail-blazers - small-scale solutions -- 9. Healthy solutions - third world national and regional policies -- 10. Help or hindrance? - the rich world's response -- 11. Health now - action for change
Notes Includes index
On cover: OXFAM Public Affairs Unit
Bibliography Includes index
Subject Drugs -- Developing countries -- Marketing.
Medical care -- Developing countries.
Medicine -- Developing countries.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Developing countries.
Pharmaceutical policy -- Developing countries.
Developing Countries.
Drug Industry.
Health Policy.
Pharmaceutical Preparations.
SUBJECT Developing countries -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117507
Author Oxfam.
LC no. 85673374
ISBN 0855980656 (paperback)