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Bad Medicine. The Prescription Drug Industry in the Third World. M. Silverman, M. Lydecker, Ph. R. Lee. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-8047-1669-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Klaus M. Leisinger
Klaus M. Leisinger
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Developing Countries, Basel, Switzerland
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 388 - 391
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1. See Silverman, M. The Drugging of the Americas. How Multinational Corporations Say One Thing About Their Products to Physicians in the United States, and Another Thing to Physicians in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976Google Scholar; and Silverman, M, Lee, PR, Lydecker, M. Prescription for Death. The Drugging of the Third World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.Google Scholar

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