Phake
Subtitle: the deadly world of falsified and substandard medicines
By: Roger Bate
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9780844772325; 9780844772332; 9780844772349
Subjects: Counterfeit Drugs; Drug Industry; Internationality; Fraud; Drug and Narcotic Control
Description: "Drug trade, pharmaceutical industry, counterfeit drugs, product counterfeiting"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Part I: The Deadly World of Dangerous Medicines; title: Historical Examples of Dangerous Medicines; title: Understanding the Problem; title: Overview of Research Findings and Possible Solutions; title: Part II: Dangerous Drug Problems by Location; title: Africa; title: India; title: China; title: Middle East; title: Other Emerging Markets; title: Russia; title: Latin America; title: Thailand; title: Turkey; title: The Online Drug Market; title: Part III: Drug-Quality Assessments; title: Factors to Consider for Research; title: Results: What We Found; title: Results Broken Out for Africa, India, and Other Markets; title: Interpreting the Results; title: Part IV: The Way Forward; title: Developing Medical Regulatory Authorities: The U.S. FDA as Case Study; title: International Cooperation against Criminals and the Lethal Trade in Fake Medicines; title: Market for Products of Varying Quality and the Intellectual Property Debate This Book.