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Smoke and thalidomide
Publisher
Prescription medication
Health economics
Pharmaceuticals
Policymaking
United States of America
Description
Dr Edward Nik-Khah's Smoke and Thalidomide is an examination of the power of economists - and their constructed institutions - in the mobilisation of the US pharmaceutical industry in the 1970s, and their continued influence in how the industry controls our knowledge about drugs today.
This paper is part of the Whitlam Institute's Perspectives series.
Publication Details
ISBN:
978-1-74108-387-3
Copyright:
Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University 2016
Access Rights Type:
open
Series:
Perspectives 14
Post date:
23 Aug 2016
