Global pharmaceutical policy
Subtitle: ensuring medicines for tomorrow's world
By: Frederick M. Abbott, Graham Dukes
Contributors: Dukes, M. N. G. (Maurice Nelson Graham)
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781848440906
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenges we face; title: Promoting innovation : patents, subsidies, prizes and prices; title: Policies on innovation: past, present, and future; title: The global regulatory environment : quality, safety, and efficacy; title: Medicines for the developing world; title: The use of medicines : education, information, and persuasion; title: Regulation and the role of the courts; title: Specialized policy areas : vaccines, biologicals, and blood products : alternative and traditional medicines : self-medication : counterfeit medicines; title: The rich, the poor, and the neglected; title: Global and regional policies : the way ahead.