healthmatters issue 43
Special issue: The pharmaceutical industry
Published Winter 2000/01CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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Features
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Patients’ friends pushed aside by Labour’s PALS
The abolition of community health councils is completely at odds with Labour’s long history of support for them, says Charles Webster
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Labour isn’t working for HIV
Before the last election Labour promised a national strategy on HIV – but we are still waiting. Tim Pickstone reports
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Because you’re worth it
Drug companies want to expand sales by marketing their products directly to the public. Charles Medawar considers the consequences if they were to get the go-ahead
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Giving doctors the treatment
Peter Mansfield and Jon Jureidini explain why the work of the Medical Lobby for Appropriate Marketing is necessary to withstand the unhealthy prescribing habits promoted by drug companies
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Buying science, selling drugs
Steve Morgan, Morris Barer and Robert Evans explain how drug companies systematically manipulate scientific research in pursuit of profit
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A licence to print money?
John Abraham reports on how the ‘Europeanisation’ of regulation and licensing for marketing new medicines is profit-driven, unaccountable and a threat to public health
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Pharmacy provokes prayers
The availability of emergency contraception at chemists has provoked a new backlash against women’s reproductive choices, reports Diane Lea
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Good on paper – but will it work in practice?
The Scottish health plan sets ambitious public health targets but, realistically, can it actually meet them, asks Liz Irvine
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Looking into online therapy
With the Internet changing every area of our lives, online therapy was probably inevitable. Mark Griffiths reviews the pros and cons of taking the ‘talking cure’ over the net
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Reviews
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Needing tea and sympathy
PROMOTING HEALTH IN OLD AGE: Critical issues in self health care
Miriam Bernard
Publisher, 2000 -
Crossing the (I)Ts?
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE INTERNET FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
SS Chellen
Routledge, 2000 -
Insight into the issues of e-health
TAKING HEALTH TELEMATICS INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
Rigby M, Roberts R and Thick M (eds)
Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000 -
A few home truths
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND HEALTH: the response of the medical profession
Emma Williamson
The Policy Press, 2000 -
Helping ‘mother nature’
NATURAL PROGESTERONE: the multiple roles of a remarkable hormone
John R Lee
Jon Carpenter, 1999 -
Crossing a minefield
CHILD ABUSE: towards a knowledge base
Brian Corby
Open University Press, 2000 -
Exploring the map of ‘good’ grief
AN INTIMATE LONELINESS: supporting bereaved parents and siblings
Gordon Riches and Pam Dawson
Open University Press, 2000 -
Number crunching
OFFICIAL HEALTH STATISTICS – An Unofficial Guide
Susan Kerrison and Alison Macfarlane (eds)
Arnold, 2000 -
How best to organise health care?
THE NHS: Facing the future
Anthony Harrison and Jennifer Dixon
King’s Fund, 2000
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Obituary
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Letters
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